8 Eerily Accurate Predictions That Came True

7. Douglas Adams: Super Black Material, 1980

"It's so... black!" said Ford Prefect. "You can hardly make out its shape... light just seems to fall into it!"The blackness of it was so extreme that it was almost impossible to tell how close you were standing to it."Your eyes just slide off it..."

Any goth knows that there are actually many different shades of black. These same goths were also delighted at the unveiling of Vantablack - the blackest material known to man.

Vantablack is so black that it looks like a glitch. In much the same way that Ford Prefect marvels at a superbly black spaceship's ability to make light "fall into it" in Douglas Adams' The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Vantablack absorbs 99.965% of visible light. Instead of bouncing off, it becomes trapped and is continually deflected among the tubes, eventually becoming absorbed and dissipating into heat.

Light literally falls into it.

This makes it difficult to look at, as described in Adams' book. We're just waiting for them to turn it into the perfect dark and mysterious jacket now.