Cool shit.

I started out researching buckyballs in greater detaila nd and I learned all this cool shit. I finally understand the geometry of a truncated icosahedron courtesy of Wikipedia, after wading through several other pages that just didn't really have the diagrams for me to wrap my brain around it. I had never realized the connection of buckyballs to carbon nanotubes before--and have you seen what they're going with carbon nanotubes and batteries? Oh my gods. I'm particularly intrigued by the notion that they could be bioimplants. Talk about a way to power a pacemaker. And they could defeat a lot of engineering obstacles involved in constructing a skyhook. I love the notion of building really, really big engineering out of really, really small.