"U.S. researchers said on Tuesday that they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black that it absorbs more than 99.9 per cent of light.

Made from tiny tubes of carbon standing on end, this material is almost 30 times darker than a carbon substance used by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology as the current benchmark of blackness.

And the material is close to the long-sought ideal black, which could absorb all colours of light and reflect none.

I've made that before - in the kitchen.
- J@simpleposie (guest) 1-18-2008 7:18 am

cooking chicken
- J@simpleposie (guest) 1-18-2008 7:19 am

....
I wanna see it painted, painted black
Black as night, black as coal
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black
Yeah!

- The Rolling Stones

- the bru (guest) 1-18-2008 7:34 am

"paint it black.
paint it black.
paint it black you devil!"

--mona (rs audience member msg ny 11/27-28/69)
- bill 1-18-2008 4:27 pm

- sally mckay 1-18-2008 6:15 pm

In TV we use a strip of black velvet glued to the grey scale chart as the black reference. Once the camera is set up, you can go ahead and shoot your video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut09zkRoG0g
- rob (guest) 1-18-2008 11:26 pm

Mona is a big reason never go to a Stones concert. Imagine getting stuck beside her and hearing her story over and over again in that slightly stoned & 'tarded voice.

And after 79 seasons of American idol, it's important to be reminded of who to blame for "Black Velvet".

I'm such a fucking misanthrope today. I need an F-117. (but painted with the good stuff)

- L.M. 1-18-2008 11:48 pm