Obtaining Technology

**knight31** · 01-22-2012 05:10 PM

What is the best most advanced types of technology you have managed to create obtain or the best knowledge you have found to create the potential technology?

Or alternatively what is the best technology you know exists that you are interested in?

**Alric** · 01-22-2012 11:47 PM

Hard choice, I will go with graphene and nano tubes though. Both are basically the same in that they are carbon atoms arranged in a set pattern, in the case of nano tubes its a tube instead of just a flat 2 dimensional graphene. You don't see them used in a lot of projects today, but there is a lot of research being done on the advance materials which are very strong, and light weight, and have very good properties for electronics as well.

**mcwillis** · 01-23-2012 12:49 AM

I made a pulse pot jet engine once. You need a metal can a bit taller than as its width. Drill a one centimetre hole in the centre of either end of the can. Remove the food contents of the can; obviously you need a food type that is easy to remove. Then pour some methylated spirit into the hole so that there is about a centimetre of depth of methylated spirit. Dim the lights. Hold your thumb over the hole and give the can a good shake to generate some vapour. Then hold a match or lighter near the hole to start the engine. You should see a pulsating jet of flame and hear a pulsating noise as your pulse pot jet engine roars. The German V-1 flying bomb, also known as the Buzz Bomb or Doodlebug, was an early pulse-jet-powered predecessor of the cruise missile. The following clip shows the pulse pot jet engine in action. This is how I made my first one and it blew up like this one too.

**ThePreserver** · 01-23-2012 02:44 AM

This would depend on what people consider "advanced," but I think books are pretty "advanced." There is no "format" you need to read them, you don't need electricity to produce/use them, you don't need anything other than a brain and basic literacy to read them. (You could go even further back and say "language." Both are extremely advanced in ease and accessibility.)

**knight31** · 01-23-2012 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by mcwillis

I made a pulse pot jet engine once. You need a metal can a bit taller than as its width. Drill a one centimetre hole in the centre of either end of the can. Remove the food contents of the can; obviously you need a food type that is easy to remove. Then pour some methylated spirit into the hole so that there is about a centimetre of depth of methylated spirit. Dim the lights. Hold your thumb over the hole and give the can a good shake to generate some vapour. Then hold a match or lighter near the hole to start the engine. You should see a pulsating jet of flame and hear a pulsating noise as your pulse pot jet engine roars. The German V-1 flying bomb, also known as the Buzz Bomb or Doodlebug, was an early pulse-jet-powered predecessor of the cruise missile. The following clip shows the pulse pot jet engine in action. This is how I made my first one and it blew up like this one too.

Thats kool as a bit of fun, thanks. Very Nice. But I can't think of anyway I would be applying that practically, with the means i have.

Hard choice, I will go with graphene and nano tubes though. Both are basically the same in that they are carbon atoms arranged in a set pattern, in the case of nano tubes its a tube instead of just a flat 2 dimensional graphene. You don't see them used in a lot of projects today, but there is a lot of research being done on the advance materials which are very strong, and light weight, and have very good properties for electronics as well.

Forgive ignorance i know nothing about it. Might have to look into it more. How could it be used?

This would depend on what people consider "advanced," but I think books are pretty "advanced." There is no "format" you need to read them, you don't need electricity to produce/use them, you don't need anything other than a brain and basic literacy to read them. (You could go even further back and say "language." Both are extremely advanced in ease and accessibility.)

It's a mystery to me how language ever got created but yeah definitely is something invaluable. You right it's probaly the most valuable thing we have and we take it for granted. But does that fit into the category of technology I'm not sure. I guess it does something so have no problem with that.

Although im more interested in breakthroughs, advancing on what we already have.

**mcwillis** · 01-23-2012 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by knight31

Thats kool as a bit of fun, thanks. Very Nice. But I can't think of anyway I would be applying that practically, with the means i have.

It was fun. I bought the plans from a really cool company that sold plans for making amazing things. The plans I bought after that were to make a one man jet helicopter and a 3 watt carbon dioxide laser.

**Alric** · 01-23-2012 11:34 PM

Well for one they are very strong and very light weight and flexible. That improves a lot of modern stuff by like buildings and vehicles but can allow us to develop things not quiet possible today. An example of something we could build, which I would love to see, is a space elevator. Which is where you stretch a cable from the ground all the way out into space. Then you can move stuff up the cable for cheap shipping into space. You need something very strong and flexible for that sort of building project.

The graphene is supposed to work better at conducting electricity than stuff we usually use in computer today, so you can build more powerful electronics. Also because it is so flexible you can flexible computing devices. One such thing I heard about is like a thin computer that you could lay on a surface to use and then roll it up to take it with you.

Currently graphene is the strongest material on earth, and its an atom thin. They said its like 300 times stronger than steel, and I believe they actually produce a paper using it that was 10 time stronger than steel. I believe they actually discovered carbon nano tubes before they found graphene. The nano tubes is basically graphene with the ends connected to form a tube.

That paper I believe is really like a blend with graphene and other stuff. Which is some of the stuff they are looking into, because at an atom thick you probably couldn't even see a sheet of graphene.

With the nano tubes I believe what they have done in the past was twist the tubes around each other, like you do when you make rope and they make like threads out of it, and then make fabric and stuff with it.