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To: Jonty30
However, I do understand that what can be produced in the lab may not be producible commonly.

It's only a matter of time.

It's taken about sixty years to scale lasers from continuous milliwatts to continuous megawatts.

But it only took forty years to scale semiconductor memory from a few hundred bits to gigabytes.

The technology for producing and storing antimatter exists today, at least for a few thousand particles at a time. Eventually, it will be scaled up. I hope it's done far out in space, but it may not be.

10 posted on 08/12/2022 6:33:40 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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Even if, by mass production, that you get only 80% of the theoretical performance, you’d still be looking at a substance with 400% better performance than diamond.

I can imagine covering cement with this and having a cement structure that would last 1000 years before it would be so well protected against the elements.


11 posted on 08/12/2022 6:38:24 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want to watch the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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To: Steely Tom

Space elevator.


12 posted on 08/12/2022 6:42:55 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer
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