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To: NicknamedBob

Looks are often very deceiving. With carbon nanotubes, the dimensions you provided would be plenty strong.


816 posted on 01/04/2007 7:52:27 PM PST by rottndog (While reading this tag, remember Tens of Thousands of Americans are risking their lives for you.)
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To: rottndog; Dead Corpse
"With carbon nanotubes, the dimensions you provided would be plenty strong."

Except that it's not a solid structure. It's hollow, with pipes and elevator tubes and laboratories and fuel tanks and observatories, and all kinds of other things.

And initially, it was built in a hurry in Norwegian shipyards out of our specified steel.

We've been strengthening it since, with our carbon nanotube factories, but at first, it was just brute force engineering.

818 posted on 01/04/2007 8:00:42 PM PST by NicknamedBob (My tuner doesn't have good taste the way it used to!)
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