{"id":2457,"date":"2017-04-06T03:12:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:44:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:44:49","slug":"the-new-black-is-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-new-black-is-black\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Black is Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I never heard of this before which means John Walker has and can tell me the patent number from memory. \u00a0H\/T to Instapundit.<\/p>\n<p>The new black is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vantablack\">Vantablack<\/a>. It is &#8220;the darkest substance ever made&#8221;. \u00a0It is not 100% but it comes mighty close.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/2017\/03\/guide-to-vantablack-darkest-substance-ever\/\"><strong>Ultra low reflectance<\/strong>:<\/a> Vantablack absorbs 99.965% of light (750nm wavelength)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the link it has a few video to show its properties. At that absorption of light, 3D images look 2D. The wrinkles look flat on a crinkly piece of foil when the back side is cover in the stuff. Also the page says &#8220;lasers don&#8217;t reflect&#8221; off the stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Mike LaRoche getting his new black book in Vantablack what other usages are there?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2457\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2457\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I never heard of this before which means John Walker has and can tell me the patent number from memory. \u00a0H\/T to Instapundit.<\/p>\n<p>The new black is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vantablack\">Vantablack<\/a>. It is &#8220;the darkest substance ever made&#8221;. \u00a0It is not 100% but it comes mighty close.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twistedsifter.com\/2017\/03\/guide-to-vantablack-darkest-substance-ever\/\"><strong>Ultra low reflectance<\/strong>:<\/a> Vantablack absorbs 99.965% of light (750nm wavelength)<\/p>\n<p>At the link it has a few video to show its properties. At that absorption of light, 3D images look 2D. The wrinkles look flat on a crinkly piece of foil when the back side is cover in the stuff. Also the page says &#8220;lasers don&#8217;t reflect&#8221; off the stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Mike LaRoche getting his new black book in Vantablack what other usages are there?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" ... <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-new-black-is-black\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}