On Saturday, 25 November 2017 12:01:31 UTC+1, RichA wrote:
On Saturday, 25 November 2017 04:00:53 UTC-5, Martin Brown wrote:
On 25/11/2017 06:59, RichA wrote:

Honestly, there is a new material like is announced every five years or so. Nothing much comes of it, but who knows?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/15/world/...ial/index.html

That is a very belated announcement of the same material as NPL made in
2006 but with the trendy new backronym the marketing men added in 2012.

The first media announcement of the stuff as vantablack was in 2014.

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Regards,
Martin Brown

And nothing has come of it. No surprise.

The problem seems to be that it must be kept in the dark before use.
So nobody has actually managed to find a can of the fabled stuff...
The really, real truth [not the Strumpet fake news]
is that DARPA is painting all its millions of AI killer robots with it.
So it has been banned from commercial sale on [US] national security grounds.
Mind you, I've heard you can still buy the stuff on the cough dark net.. ;-)