Microscopic ramen bowl believed to be world's smallest

[Poll_Blind]

Source: CNN

TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japanese scientists say they have used cutting-edge technology to create a noodle bowl so small, it can be seen only through a microscope.

Mechanical engineering professor Masayuki Nakao said Thursday that he and his students at the University of Tokyo used a carbon-based material to produce a noodle bowl with a diameter of 1/25,000 of an inch.

The project was aimed at developing nanotube-processing technology.

Nakao said the Japanese-style ramen bowl was carved out of microscopic nanotubes.

[Liberal Veteran]

1. Supermodels rejoice! A portion size made just for you!

[IndependentDem]

2. hey, it can double as a container for Dubya's brain...

or balls, which ever is bigger.

[D23MIURG23]

11. I'm not convinced that either is measurable. n/t

[tridim]

Yea, but I bet it doesn't cost 15 cents

and where's the damn MSG loaded 'flavor' packet?

[Sabriel]

3. The Flying Spaghetti Monster works in mysterious ways

This answers the question, "Can the FSM make something so small even he can't eat out of it?"

(A tiny) Ramen!

[Berry Cool]

4. Next, the Japanese scientists will craft the world's smallest college student

to eat the world's smallest bowl of ramen because he can't afford to eat anything else.

[davidinalameda]

6. brava!

:rofl:

[NV Whino]

5. Nano noodles just don't do it for me, though.

Half an hour later I'm hungry again.

[damntexdem]

18. Yeah, it's like German-Chinese food:

a half-hour after eating it, one is hungry for power.

[Hissyspit]

7. I heard somewhere that the Internet is really a series of microscopic nanotubes.

[nachoproblem]

8. 30 seconds later

it received its first use by the world's tiniest college student, who prepared single-celled algae flavor Top Ramen by heating it with bombardment from an electron scanning microscope. Afterwards, he left the dirty microscopic bowl in the sink for his roommates.

[TommyO]

19. Was he hungry one picosecond later?

[Generator]

9. Couldn't they like spend that energy like you know

finding solutions to our energy crisis? Was their world wide demand for invisible bowls or is this planet insane?

[w4rma]

10. Nanotechnology will help with our energy crisis. (nt)

[whistle]

12. Maybe this is a harbinger of how scarce food is about to become

:yoiks:

[elias7]

13. Please sir, I want some more...

[Doctor Cynic]

14. Only the Japanese can do stuff like this.

[orleans]

15. can you imagine how many you'd need to eat to fill you up?

even worse--how long it would take to eat all of them?

[melody]

16. Now they can make itty bitty wicker furniture out of it

It's the only thing ramen is good for (at least when you have to watch sodium intake).

[damntexdem]

17. Yet it has just as much nutritional value as the regular size!

Ain't zero a wonderful concept?

[dysfunctional press]

20. "believed to be"...???

are there really that many micrscopic ramen bowls out there competing for the title...? :shrug:

[arikara]

21. Why would they bother to do such a thing?

Seriously.

[Endangered Specie]

22. Meanwhile, cancer and AIDS go uncured...