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Your Vantablack compilation
when you leave the teabag the recommended 5 minutes
Mar 6, 2016 9:50 AM
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Durzaka
fun fact: Some scientists just discovered something even blacker than Vantablack. Cool shit man.
LordNedsHead
This isn't your everyday darkness. This is ADVANCED DARKNESS.
fleshygrowth
FEED ME YOUR PHOTONS, MORTAL
lurkymcderp
I'm bringing Vantablack...you other brothers sit and just refract.
VeskaiTsumonit
So dark the Terrible Tiger chose it for its stripes.
twfeline
So black, people will try to look away.
DerpieMcDerpface
I never thought about it. But you are right. I want a black.
SuperDuperSecretImgurAccount
"Hello darkness my old friend"
Watra001
This isn't your everyday ordinary darkness... this is advanced darkness
SinisterScienceLesbian
Finally, a laser pointer that can go UNDER things.
TheHoleStretcher3000
"It's so black, so impossibly black "
thegraphiteknight
Great white buffalo.
BohemianRhapDaddy
Too bad Anish Kapoor (sculptor) has exclusive rights to it.
TheInternetHasRuinedMeForever
Naw thats a hoax
BohemianRhapDaddy
Is it? it was all over the news.
thewarinvietfuckingnam
So how do scientists know that it's gravity that doesn't allow the light to escape and not just something really dark such as this?
jm995
They can see the effects of their gravity on objects around them, if it was just a dark object it wouldn't have the same pull.
thewarinvietfuckingnam
Talking about black holes of course. Friend wants to know.
AtlasUnbound
Because A-this is a lab-created product, not found in stellar quantities, and B-black holes bend fuckin light from galaxies behind them.
Xzocka
There is a distinct lending effect on light viewed near massive gravitational fields. We don't just witness light disappear, (1/2)
Xzocka
We can see it bending around the black hole as space distorts due to its gravity.
Xzocka
*lensing (fuck autocorrect)
Lezbedevious
Can we Woodhouse in here so he can learn the difference between black and slightly darker black
Protoncheto
I need a T-shirt made of this and I might actually get a GF.
jazzchameleon
Pretty sure they manufacture this by trying to summon Yug-Sothoth into this dimension. I bet Wilbur Whatley got rich off of this
hyperbolichumility
I'm upset that my monitor is only capable of a certain level of black, so I'm not getting the full effect.
ThisIsMyUsernameThereAreManyLikeIt
Please start coating monitors in this shit so we can stop screen reflections.
ChrisHemsworthsBulge
Ikr, the whole "anti-glare monitors" are almost as bad as the old tube monitors that magnified any light x10.
FrostyOblivion
How would you see? Unless you put it directly on the screen, you'd still see reflections...but if you did that, you wouldn't see shit.
ImRandyMarsh
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at
Therearetoomanyusernames
It's hard for the brain to register it since it's not normal for things to not reflect some amount of light.
ThisJustGotAwkwardDidntIt
The blackest things that science can make.
ICallPeoplesBullshit
2nd is Wesley Snipes.
thescurge
I need this for the paint on my car. No more speeding tickets.
Copperbrat
Driving home from the paint shop, you t-bone a minivan that pulls out in front of you because you're invisible.
Senguie
Can I get at shirt or a coat in this colour?
SirRaime
I'd buy that one, too!
BohemianRhapDaddy
Nope. It's copyrighted, or something, by an artist.(Anish Kapoor)
Senguie
A* shirt
megatrep
Seriously tho, let's talk about the bullshit how Kapoor has exclusive rights to vantablack.
TheInternetHasRuinedMeForever
Naw. Thats untrue. Just a rumor
TheInternetHasRuinedMeForever
Naw. Thats untrue. Just a rumor
megatrep
Where does it say its just a rumor? cause im seeing it on a lot of sites, and it seems ridiculous but theres no one saying its untrue
TheInternetHasRuinedMeForever
Oh wow! I checked the Surrey NanoSystems site, and in the FAQ ..."licensed exclusively to Kapoor UK". I was mistaken.
megatrep
damn. was kinda hoping you were originally right too.
bellaluna
WHAT THE FUCK. How?! He didn't even create it! Whatever moron sent that paperwork through should be booted off the planet.
whyWontKeiraKnightleyReturnMyPhoneCalls
That's a portal into some kinda hellish netherspace and ̶I̶ ̶W̶A̶N̶T̶ ̶O̶N̶E̶ nothing you say will convince me otherwise
DotSlashNatalie
I'm ready to be the doom marine.
ThisIsntFlyingThisIsFallingWithStyle
*hellish Nightosphere
Molotovbliss
"She tore a hole in our universe, a gateway to another dimension. A dimension of pure chaos. Pure... evil."
thecynabal
Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
LeiZhenBang
$$?
jackisalibrarian
This album cover is just black. There's none more black.
SimonGodOfHairdos
Well I think it looks like death.
decorativemooseknuckle
Smell the Glove.
SirArthurIV
It's like...how much more black could it be? and the answer is...None. None more black.
ButterfaceTaintClown
NO WE'RE NOT GOING TO FUCKIN DO STONEHENGE
Kilo11
Whats the scientific name for it? Exsheart black?
C141Clay
I got it. I came here to make a similar comment. +1
carlcrossing
VANTA. Vertically aligned nano tubing array
GoodGuyGonzo
Vantastic
goodmorningmoriohcho
In the art world, we call it "pure black" because it absorbs almost all light and doesn't reflect it.
Derilect
No, in the art world you call it "VANTABlack"
scarletswordfish
In the art world I VANTA smack you.
FlightRisk3154
Imagine a room perfectly coated in this with 1 light in the middle. I expect that would feel incredibly surreal.
Icecold11111
I want it. What if in addition it was that sound absorbing stuff, and you had on a suit that had ventablack, so you couldn't see yourself
cutthroatink15
Vantablack morph suit
msa011
Easy there Satan
kaitoofrose
You know that is how we get demon's, right?
CabooseKbuse
Go deeper
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Icecold11111
Wait, with that stuff you could actually make it really bright in there lumen wise, but it would still be pitch black so you could be lit up
Icecold11111
Which raises the question of what a mirror would look like in that situation
JuneOokami
My brain is turning to mush. Thanks.
AndThatIsMyOpinion
Maybe Vantablack is an ancient Ninja secret and that's how they live in the shadows?!
AntiDownVoteActivist
The closest to non-existence you could get.
Icecold11111
Can't hear yourself, can't see yourself or your surroundings, just one fixed point of light. Make it the size of an aircraft hangar, too.
super9091
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IAlwaysUpvoteHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy
Yeah and make the light really bright but small. Damn let's start a project. We'll make it happen!
thrashinuva
You'd actually be the only thing you could hear, including the sound of your own pulse.
mdcrmn
You could also hear your digestion track at work
lpgfinmarkus
It probably would be really surreal untill you choked on the asbestos like carbon nanotubes that vantablack is made of
JuneOokami
Imagine a planetarium made of this, where you could feel like you're floating through the universe!
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Someone needs to start a VR project on this.... I just might.
nonamejanie
I would totally freak out.
JeRMP
Sensory deprivation.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_tank
iwishjtmoneywasstillavailableitsmyoldvideogamemoniker
Sprayed on sound deadening material for that super disorienting sense removing mind eff.
TiRhino
Your question reminded of the world's quietest room: https://youtu.be/Vr5UoestpNw
bacononbacon
Wooo Minneapolis!
Kraj71
Military training exercise?
DeathByPowerpoint
Alarm black?
Aysientor
Mopp level absolute 0
slaaneshBuiltMyJetbike
It would most certainly be used to fuck with privates. I support this.
Robowitz
This on the ceiling and the floor, mirrored walls and multiple lights in a room = also insanity! :>
Therearetoomanyusernames
Or insane. I mean, that's how I would feel in it.
dagingee
Isn't that how you always feel?
Therearetoomanyusernames
Hm, didn't think about that. Maybe more insane?
JustinDuran
I think this is accurate. It would be like being in that perfectly soundless room that they have time limits on being inside.
Therearetoomanyusernames
Someone else mentioned that. Anechoic chamber. My thoughts exactly.
apageofthedarkhold
Sort of like the room the put Zaphod in?
Therearetoomanyusernames
I don't think that would help him AT ALL. The heads would go nuts!
Untelo
You mean the Total Perspective Vortex?
apageofthedarkhold
Yes I do, you Hoopy Frood.
BacalaoPequeno
You would literally just see the light bulb, nothing else
hunter4708
My eyes can't understand this little gap in environment and you, Satan, want to make it even worse...
StepRightUp
Bull. Your eyes "understand" it just fine. There's just nothing TO see it's so fully absorbant of light.
StepRightUp
Build an anechoic chamber coated with this stuff. Insanity in three ... two ...
Therearetoomanyusernames
Nooooo...nope, nope, no thank you!!
spartaninvicta
came here to say the exact same thing :)
GentlemanScientist
You just gave an art student an A on their final exams.
zeoneo1992
no art student has the kind of money to buy this paint
Stuckinaboxthere
I want a soundproof room with vantablack walls to truly experience the void
sandwichnerd
I heard a podcast with a POW who was in pitch black solitary, did not sound fun. Said he didn't know if HE was even real.
Sususapitot
add speaker just below the light, and take single tab.
MantisTobagganMD
http://imgur.com/s0xvKY3
Therearetoomanyusernames
And apparently they were wrong. It could have been more black.
LiterallyYourMom
It's one blacker.
istillhavenocluewhattodo
so this is black humor
HiImUgly
Batman: *heavy breathing*
DomZombie
Still don't know what you can use this for. Anyone?
torpthorkertoo
Batman's suit?
lewdcruderudebagofprechewedfooddude
I really hope they started using this material on Kasou Taishou.
schrodingersasymmetric12gauge
I want a bunch of it for a projector frame to handle the over run. It would be perfect. Zero reflection.
imnotallowed2havefriends
Paint my bathtub and float away
twfeline
Radiating heat.
ztoundaa
Imgur posts. Great for imgur posts
brighterthanyou
Theatre
gekkepoes
Cover a spacecraft with nthis stuff and they wont see it coming.
MKingery
Except you still give off tons of heat. You can't really stealth in space without discovering something to do with heat.
TrustMeImABassist
You can stare this until you remember your ex.
thewonderbeards
dashboards, sunglasses, curtains, green houses
CrowbarCommando
Paint your room.
Harepus1
Tshirts. It will hide my beergut.
MissLadyLady
making bugs bunny holes
imnotallowed2havefriends
Same
TheWoodsman42
Black drapes in theatres.
Aelinsaar
stray light control, thermal masking, aesthetics, optical beam dump, etc.
diehardlance
Vigilantism?
DomZombie
This would be cool as a Batman or Snake Eyes outfit. You'd just blend in with the surroundings and depth perception would be thrown off.
decorativemooseknuckle
The cover of a Spinal Tap album.
Shimobe
You can spray it on your life to make it really matter. Like, a lot.
drone7
Sensory deprivation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_deprivation . Best eye mask imaginable.
Ballbreaker
Goth fashion
MoreCrustyJugglers
I'd love to use it in my artwork, but some jerk artist bought the rights. Wonder if I can buy the rights to rainbows?
DomZombie
Can an artist do that? Isn't it just a material? It's like having an artist buying the rights to acrylic, or a sculptor to bronze.
MoreCrustyJugglers
he did do that :(
IpostMyDogALot
It is so dark that the brain cannot really understand what it is looking at so it has a bright future in the military.
Snarknado4
For one thing, it renders laser-guided missiles useless.
elowolfe
As a fabric, this would be amazing in theater.
marcuszeal
A team of Utah State University used the material to create an extremely absorbent urinal cake -- a black hole that sucks in your pee. 1/2
marcuszeal
Sauce: http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/05/vantablack-2/
fraxinusoleaceae
Being the motherfucking night.
catusfelis
You can drop water on it.
IHaveATacoBellSign
My walls?
greenross25
Blacker Tactilenecks.
CaptainLegot
Stealth spaceships.
cacingcau
As a photographer, this will be the best black background ever (or the worst). Also best cutter (to control light direction and leak).
FurciferPardalis
1st thing I thought of when I first saw this stuff a few months ago. Actually googled it hoping it was available & affordable (it's neither)
Lezbedevious
I would like it on my car
WillYouMarrowMe
The bottom of night-flying planes, the top of submarines. It's called countershading, and it's why sharks are two colours!
eggmuffin
Sharks are working off of 400 millions years of evolution, and they're generally shades of grey. If black was better, they'd be black.
WillYouMarrowMe
When did i say "put it on sharks"? I said that's why sharks are two colours BECAUSE of countershading. fudgenugget.
Josiahkf
whoa whoa whoa, no need to bring such extreme vulgarity!
eggmuffin
You said "top of submarines", implying that you thought it made for excellent camouflage. If it did, more marine life would be black.
UhOhImAnOreo
He also said bottom of planes but that doesn't make you any less of a fudgenugget
Harmonex
Evolution isn't optimal. Selection just kills off what doesn't work.
KeeleonOhms
Which is the same thing as proper camouflaged submarines surviving, while bad camp gets blown up.
CerealwithMilk
It has its limitations because it works off of what is already available, not what would be the perfect trait.
IATTM
Anyone ready to perform an experiment with genetically modified black sharks?
eggmuffin
① A colour change is no big deal for evolution, it can be achieved in a few dozen generations, with the right pressure.
eggmuffin
② Sometimes even faster. That pressure has not been present, otherwise black would be a more common colour for marine life. It isn't.
LPD42
Sneaking
SmashinLuv
Prying. Spying.
fredrickthecat
Filthy hobbits.
HermanManly
But that's what leather armor is for, it's literally made of hide
Iglumies
That punny pun
SpideyPool
Expensive emo clothing
Vandercookie
Artist Anish Kapoor (the guy who did the bean sculpture in Chicago) bought exclusive rights to use it for his artwork.
whathappenedtoalltheanvils
Yoga pants
rootedoak
Ain't no lumpy ass in those yoga vanta blacks.
YourLordCthulhu
vanta slacks
whathappenedtoalltheanvils
That's what I was thinking, if the magic taylors at lulu got ahold of that technology, my dumpy old ass could look 20 again
CaramelMad
Technically your ass wouldn't be seen, at all.
whathappenedtoalltheanvils
I am okay with that
phatteh
Telescopes, cameras, stealth, generally anything where you want to control reflections
honeyboob
magicians will have a field day with this
Josiahkf
Also amazing for heat retention since nothing is lost, all is absorbed.
Somnom
Sounds menacing when you put it that way. FEAR VANTABLACK! ALL WILL BE ABSORBED!
M4rt1nV
Wouldn't stealth tech with this be rather limited in it's uses? Since in anything but an open field you'd see a black shape moving about?
Treblaine
Is a laser is scanning the night sky it would have no return from it shooting off into space, ditto if totally absorbed.
Aerolfoz
Heck no. It's about getting close to your enemy. Modern aircraft with missiles, if you can see them, it's waaaay too late.
Aerolfoz
The short-ranged infra-red missiles, AIM-9s, have like 30+km max range, 1km min. Those are the shortest range ones...
Aelinsaar
Don't think of coating something all over in it, think of coating certain "hot" spots, blended with existing stealth.
Aerolfoz
No, all over. Vision is short range, and basically useless. Combat is fought over incredible range, air combat 10km is very close.
Aelinsaar
This isn't just about visibility though, it absorbs IR, UV and a broad range of EM to the same amazing degree. It's also a very thin 1/2
Aelinsaar
2/2 CVD coating. So you could coat small parts without adding much weight, say, to an airframe. Maybe blackout leading edges and bottoms.
KadeDoyle
Planes could use it pretty well
EdgeGod
Use it in clothing. +99 sneak at night
LemFliggity
The torturers in Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" series wear cloaks made of "fuligin" which is exactly like vantablack.
gametenor68
My friend Tyrone can do that.
kilgoreissocoollike
How? Does he already have Vantablack clothes?
cutiepatoodiepumpkinbooty
Streaking
anitabieror6
+99 goth during the day
vietarmis
"what's that human-shaped portal to hell doing standing in the bushes?"
noyougofuckyourself
Dude, you forgot to crouch
Frappo
You can dribble water onto it like in the last gif. (Anyone know what that's supposed to show?)
icarusv13
Probaby the fact that it's hydrophobic. If this material absorbed the water, it would lose its light absorbtion.
WDGaster
Its hydrophobic
Frappo
Ooooh! I can see it now. Guess I was too entranced by the darkness. (Gonna keep that line for my Warlock in D&D.)
InexplicablyAvailableUsername
World domination.
notacoldwarkid
http://imgur.com/fFFfsGN
somethingwickedthatwaywent
We did that last night
oldalonedonefor
I see what you did there you sneaky sob +1 to you
MrCIA
And we are doing it again tonight.
AliBarber
P..pinky? Brain?!
idontunderstandhoweyeballswork
Traps?
farc0ugh
So this is what Ninja are made of
codexdelux
Ninja's spring out from particles of skin and hair shed by Chuck Norris, But their clothes are made from this stuff yeah.
zenoshogun
Nice theory but being too black makes things extra visible, you want a grey, or a very dark green.
RoboCritter
"being too black makes things extra visible" a commentary on society? you fucking mad man
ilikeblondehair
#BlackClothesMatter
TheWayADrillWorks
Vetinari would be proud.
thedoctorius
I came looking for this comment
Gregster427
Eh? I thought Navy blue, very dark was best as it blended in with the slightly blue wavelength of moonlight.
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The slightly blue moonlight would tint a black cloth slightly blue anyway, wouldn't it?
zenoshogun
Well you know what to wear when hunting werewolves then.
MidwayMarshall
The US navy was considered painting the pacific fleet pink as camouflage at night
ParappaTheVelociraptor
+1 for proper pluralization of ninja
C0mmanderCrunch
They actually wore a dark navy blue
Flyndaran
Mythical creatures don't "actually" wear anything. Assassins wore whatever was needed to get close to targets then leave.
kmikl
No... ninjas wore leather armour that was dyed dark... It was literally a case of being made of hide.
particleguy
GREYFOX!
RicoD
METAL GEAR!?
KlatnYelox
!
mammothfart
This is what space fighters will be painted with.
bunnyrut
the plural form of Ninja is Ninji
Boondangle40
Ninji chop!
notyouravrgd
This is what ninjis are made of?