Graphene, what if the takes control of humanity?

Graphene

There is a question whose answer could change the world. It's a simple yet terrifying question: What the hell happened to graphene? You may remember this material, which jumped to the headlines a decade ago when two researchers from the University of Manchester won the Nobel Prize for having, so to speak, "discovered" it. In reality, in a now famous example of serendipity in the scientific field, the two scientists did nothing but peel a piece of adhesive tape from the graphite - the mineral that is inside the pencils - realizing, practically by chance, that in the flakes residual of the material was a layer of carbon atoms. So here is graphene, the first "2D material" in the world: in quotation marks because since it can be seen with the naked eye, graphene obviously also has a third dimension.

From the stars to oblivion

Technicalities aside, graphene was a miraculous material: it was as if an alien had handed us the keys to the future. A substance that is both rigid and elastic. Super thin and incredibly strong. Translucent but waterproof, and moreover useful for making transistors. Scientists immediately promised us the stars. Flying cars! Drug Delivery Droids! Elevators able to reach space! "The visions and predictions of science fiction writers and technology gurus finally within our reach," read a video from the University of Manchester. "It was as if science fiction had become reality," was the comment of a Samsung executive.

But after the initial great enthusiasm, nothing.

Not really nothing, to be honest. Today, graphene can be found in phones and other objects. There are those who use it to make origami. But not even the shadow of space elevators. The same thing goes for unbreakable condoms (one of the less bombastic promises). How come? How is it possible that the most miraculous material in the history of the world, the subject of infinite funding, has dematerialized? The official explanation goes something like this: science is slow, the market impervious to change, and graphene is probably too good at what it does, and so we're exploring other 2D materials. "It's old stuff," to use the words of a scientist who seemed not to understand why I ever wanted to talk to him about graphene.

Slimy threat

The reason I want to talk about it is that I think the truth is out there [cit. ], and it's probably slimy. Think about it. If you've ever played with graphene, perhaps creating a solution or adding acid to turn it into graphene oxide, you know what this material can look like. It can take on a scary, slime-like, goo-like appearance, all black and sticky, almost alive. And you also know what all this could mean.

That is, the official explanation of what happened to graphene, the "scientific" explanation, is a lie. Perhaps the graphene did not dematerialize but, on the contrary, it rematerialized. Perhaps the worst case scenario, what should never have happened, has materialized. It is possible that graphene has transformed into the substance that embodies the most absolute evil and has taken over the world. Of course, we shouldn't say that. You shouldn't know that your mind is currently controlled by a self-replicating xenon mutagen, which was initially sold to us as the key to the future. The proof of its existence must be hidden in the only place it can be hidden, which is science fiction.

Black goo in film and television

Black goo only this year - “black visicidume”, more or less - as graphene oxide is called in science fiction, it has crept into the plots of two sci-fi series, Scissione and Westworld. Three counting Stranger Things, where he had been spotted already in the first few seasons. These apparitions - which clearly represent sublimations of real-world torments - are too assiduous to be random. These are signs that cannot be ignored. Starting with Westworld, whose final season sees robots take complete control of mankind. In the series it is explained that the situation is the result of a combination of flies, parasites and, yes, a black and slimy substance. In a hidden place we see tanks of this substance with a sinister reverberation. It appears to be the liquid in which parasites are grown, a reminder of the first noteworthy appearance of mush: in the cult series The X-Files, where the so-called "black oil", also called Black Cancer or Purity, was a sentient alien virus in able to take control of the body that housed it.

In the middle of the third season of the series, French rescuers discover an alien ship in the depths of the ocean and mysteriously die. A diving suit belonging to one of them is found, contaminated with "some kind of oil". Is it possible that the oil is, as Agent Mulder later put it, "a means used by aliens to jump from one human body to another"? Westworld also evokes black oil as a medium. Thankfully the X-Files knows the whole truth and thanks to FBI agent Scully, in season five we learn that the body thief is a kind of "worm-like organism" that "sticks to the pineal gland". Black goo isn't just a medium - it's a monster too.

Sometimes the victims of the substance in The X-Files manage to survive, as long as the material is safely ejected from the eyes and mouth, too. with violence. The unfortunates in the Alien franchise, where the best-known modern manifestation of the black goo occurs, don't have the same luck. As we read in one of the video games connected to the saga: "Any living thing that comes into direct contact with the black slime - technically known as Chemical A0-3959X.91-15 in this universe - will die horribly, give birth to monsters or it will become a monster itself. " In Rakka, a short film by Neill Blomkamp, ​​Sigourney Weaver leads the war against alien colonizers, who are equipped with weapons capable of controlling minds and destroying buildings.

Of course, science fiction isn't too clear on how it works. some black goo. The substance is, by its nature, impossible to grasp. In Miyazaki's films, he tends to be an ecological threat; in Lucy by Luc Besson she is a kind of transhumanist supercomputer (perhaps it is no coincidence that Scarlet Johansson - Lucy's Lucy - is also the protagonist of the horror Under the Skin, where she plays an alien who absorbs men by immersing them in a sea of black mush). In Scissione the black slime is more metaphorical, a symbol of the ways in which separate realities mix and mingle with each other. The same goes for Stranger Things, where he is a kind of interdimensional intruder. The details, however, are not important. The medium is the metaphor, the monster is the message, and the message is this: whatever it is, the black slime is alien, it is everywhere and it is "the source of all evil on the planet". This last quote, however, is not from science fiction, but from a real video posted on YouTube.

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Plot for world domination

Last year, Greta Thunberg, the activist for the most famous climate in the world, it has made its entrance into an international, perhaps even intergalactic, society of black slime worshipers. For proof, just look at the cover of the Guardian magazine, where she is portrayed as a black substance drips onto her face. The newspaper said it was a harmless mixture of olive oil and gouache, but Reddit detectives know the truth: it was graphene oxide. It was the black goo.

The Black Goo Secret Society boasts many famous acolytes, who don't go too far when it comes to proving their allegiance. In the music video for When the Party's Over, Billie Eilish drinks a glass of black slime which then drips from her eyes. As the most observant have pointed out, on Facebook and other truth-dispensing platforms, the same type of substance can also be seen in the works of characters such as Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, Madonna and the cast of American Horror Story. . All members of the Society. All servants of the black goo.

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What are the precious energies of all these celebrities aimed at? To continue to guarantee the dominion of the black goo over humanity, of course. Nobody knows exactly how the substance got here. There are those who believe that during prehistoric times a spaceship carrying the substance crashed in Antarctica, where it remained waiting to thaw and spread around the world. Others argue that, approximately 16 thousand years ago, ancient extraterrestrials poured their consciousness on our planet in the form of "black rain", which - corrupted over the centuries by the incessant violence of humanity - then thickened into the form we know today (for a modern interpretation of this event, see the opening scene of Prometheus, in which humanity's alien ancestor drinks slime, disintegrates and infects Earth's waters with its DNA). However, slimy deposits are historically difficult to detect. We know that the Nazis relied on their secret reserves to carry out their dark plans and, according to various documentaries that can be seen for free on the internet, the Falklands War was fought for precisely this reason: former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wanted to transform this "sentient oil" into a weapon, and it is likely that it has succeeded.

We are talking about a terrifying substance, the effects of which we are still studying on civilization. "Unfortunately - reports a Facebook user -, the genomic sequence of the black slime is so deep that it would take decades, perhaps hundreds of years to decode it". Sometimes the body rejects the substance, as in the case (also reported by the BBC), of UFO researcher Max Spiers, who vomited two liters of black liquid before dying in 2016. Most of the time, however, we harbor it. unknowingly inside our body, where the slimy intoxicates us, influencing our every thought and action. This is one of the reasons why many believe that it is graphene oxide, which among its characteristics includes a type of programmability consistent with the mind control that black goo is capable of. What's more, graphene oxide is commonly abbreviated to GO. GO, just like in black goo.

"When you come across this theme for the first time - says Harald Kautz-Vella -, it may seem a strange thing, of little importance for everyday life ". Kautz-Vella, a German chemist and activist, is perhaps the world's leading authority on black goo; on YouTube you can see his numerous interventions on the subject. For Kautz-Vella, the substance is elusive, at least until one tries to understand it. It is the hidden source of all the aggression in the world, what makes us "devoid of empathy" and "ruthless" (the first time he came into contact with the slimy, for example, Kautz-Vella says he immediately felt the urgency to beat women). But “once you can understand what it is - he continues -, he asks' What governs our life? ’Immediately takes on another meaning". And what governs our sight is precisely this substance. Life was born of the black slime, on which it now depends and which will eventually cause its decline.

The victory of narrative over reality

So, here's what happened to graphene . It is everywhere and it has become very powerful. There are those who even swear that it ended up in vaccines against Covid-19. This is the truth ". Ours, on the other hand, is a world in which the best narrative wins, and the best narrative is always fiction, a liquid truth. Facts don't sell science, space elevators do. Science fiction fascinates and completes us in ways that mundane reality never can. In an episode of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Skin of Evil, Captain Picard faces a force in the service of the purest evil, a life form that assembles itself from a pool of black goo. The being tells that he was once good: he was part of a race of noble creatures, but then he decided to leave behind everything that was evil and left the slimy to rot, alone, on a forgotten planet. "So here you are - Picard tells him -, feeding on your loneliness, consumed by your own pain, believing your own lies."

This is the truth - the whole truth - about the black slime. The truth is simple and terrifying: the black goo is real and will kill you. Because it is the opposite of hope: it is the shadow of him, a conspiracy. "Do I have to explain to you what true evil is? - Picard asks him, before abandoning the substance to his eternal damnation -. It is submitting to you."

This article originally appeared on sportsgaming.win US and is was integrated by Lorenza Negri.