@ponderable said
It is the adhesion between layers that has to be overcome, not the gravitational effect.

Can you suggest an experimental setup, that would be improved by low-gravity environment?

One of the techniques is the attempt to create the one atom strong layer using cvd: https://www.acsmaterial.com/blog-detail/cvd-graphene.html

Okay, I've now looked at your link about the CVD method. Very spooky: it depends on a copper substrate!

Get researchin' on this, you! 😉

@ponderable said
It is the adhesion between layers that has to be overcome, not the gravitational effect.

Can you suggest an experimental setup, that would be improved by low-gravity environment?

One of the techniques is the attempt to create the one atom strong layer using cvd: https://www.acsmaterial.com/blog-detail/cvd-graphene.html

I envision maybe making sheets of graphene from some kind of liquid suspension, but I have no idea if that's possible or, if it can be done, whether it's the best option. Can such an allotrope of carbon be assembled in such a way?

Meanwhile, in a magazine I have lying around there was an article about a serendipitous discovery of nanomachines that can walk unidirectionally along straight lines (as if on train tracks) on a plate of copper when subjected to a bit of electrical excitation. They're able to push things around, and so act like bulldozers. I ran across the article soon after I first ran across this discussion, and wondered if graphene could be constructed atom by atom on a copper plate using these nanomachines. The researchers are in Austria, I think, and I forget what they were actually trying to do with their experiment, but it wasn't anything to do with nanomachines.

@wildgrass said
Can you frame the debate question?

Overall, was Kissinger an able statesman who made a positive contribution to humanity, or was he not? There is no shortage of folks who say he has considerable blood on his hands.

@wildgrass said
Kissinger's legacy?

Kissinger's death?

His weird name?

He wrote exceedingly well, that's about the highest compliment I could give in a eulogy.

It's a big topic. His death is a biological fact, and his name on par with Dr. Strangelove. What's left is his legacy. Decades of it, in government and politics.

@shavixmir said
One less bastard on the planet.

Yes, that is true. And he's not likely to get invited to any of Hitler's dinner parties in Hell. He'll have to get all his gossip second-hand through Nixon and Reagan.

@vivify said
I didn't think anything would top Chauvin getting stabbed but you've done it.

Well done.

I'm not sure I know what you mean.

Discuss!

@ponderable said
Of course there are several groups working hard on making appreciable ammounts in well characterized quality. And it is not as easy as it sounds (just put a pencil on the surface and draw ahead).

Perhaps the manufacture of graphene would be better facilitated by a zero-gravity environment...?

I guess trying to cleave a one-atom-thick sheet of graphene off a block of the stuff, even with some kind of extremely precise laser, is just too tricky.

@jj-adams said
Why do things synchronize for no apparent reason?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-_VPRCtiUg

Does the video not give any explanation? I haven't watched it, but often it's to do with resonance states and dynamics modeled by principles of perturbation theory.

@sonhouse

The escape velocity of a 1-mile asteroid, hollowed out or otherwise, would be negligible. Hire some 8-year-olds to chuck the rocks you don't want into space.

@shavixmir said
So, republicans in Ohio want to stop the pro-choice vote, by doing whatever to do whomever… couldn’t follow it. Something to do with the judiciary.

And trump, in 2nd term wants to honor veterans by rooting out the communists, marxists, facists and left-wing radical vermin…

Your country is fukked.

Yes, but...

How many feet above sea level is (are?) the Netherlands, again?

@averagejoe1 said
Just like he was going to before Covid hit and got him off track. He will reduce the amount that you and I send to Mexico in foreign aid.

Uh huh.

Sure.

@ponderable said
You realize the difference beweteen a dick pic and a person in a gymnastic attire?

AvJoe undresses everything with his eyes. Something like the quintessential Dirty Old Man.

@wildgrass

Not only do Republicans not believe in democracy, they apparently also do not really believe in capitalism. What a laugh.

Hey jj, go sit on Xi Jinping's lap and cry him a river.

@kevcvs57 said
Yeah the best thing to happen to the dems was trumps evangelical rapey judges crushing roe versus Wade
Unfortunately it’s the worst thing to happen to women in the US

You're right, of course.