i just realized that i never posted my monster factory vid on here, so in honor of final pam's 10th birthday, tumblr can have this, my masterpiece (x)

love my pumpkin

scary my pumpkin

I fucking love this video so much.

Sound on

Reminds me of my favorite Three Word Phrase comic:

the one addition that truly makes this clip even more powerful is knowing that Mr Sterling is this guy:

I am in awe trying to imagine the sheer levels of non sequiturs they would be able to produce together.

i'd buy both of these, but i spend all my money on worms.

I love a movie about a city full of robots overthrowing the government

I am always thinking about every line of dialogue in the first 50 seconds of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

HELLO?

first of all, through the power of tape anything is possible, so jot that down

- Andre Geim

hang on I need to look something up

yeah that's funny

I was actually referring to this. I didn’t know about the Gecko thing, man really likes tape ig

The thing you have to understand about this, btw, is that people had been trying unsuccessfully to isolate monolayer graphene for 60 years before this, using just about every method you could imagine. Epitaxial growth, chemical exfoliation, interchalated synthesis, mechanical drawing—these were able to produce graphite sheets a few hundred atoms thick, or tiny monolayer flecks embedded in some other substrate, but the dream of a single, uniform, free-standing graphene monolayer always seemed just out of reach of current experimental techniques.

And then, in 2004, Andre and Konstantin come along with a roll of literal fucking Scotch tape-

Andre Geim is someone I think of fondly.

There is an Ig Nobel prize (a pun on the world “ignoble,” a joke prize for science that is funny (but still sensible.) Andre Geim won it for magnetically levitating a live frog. A few years later he became the guy who peeled graphene with scotch tape.

He is the only person so far who has won both a Nobel Prize (graphene) and an Ig Nobel Prize. SUCH a good career bag.

I use this technique to make graphene for my PhD project!

At the last conference I attended someone asked me if scotch tape exfoliation is still the best way to make graphene and yes, hilariously, it’s still the state-of-the-art technique.

@knightwithakay

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It's extremely rare for me to not post something because it's too bad. But this was a 4 edible situation