[tutstar]

GNIP....

[hdbc]

Even if this technology becomes feasible, do you really think the enviro-nazis would sit still for this? The space elevator will never get off the ground.

[valkyry1]

Even if they make carbon nanotubes long enough to build the space elevator, the space elevator will not work IMO

[Daffynition]

I have my Nanobamas

Why should I even care?

[Blue Highway]

The comments on the site with the article are just as interesting as the story itself to hear the theories behind it.

[America2012]

I heard about this technology on Coast to Coast AM. Ian Punnett was hosting that night. The carbon-nanotube technology goes by several names including Graphene and Buckypaper;

Carbon Nanotube

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube

Graphene

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene

Buckypaper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckypaper

Buckypaper is supposed to be 500 times stronger than steel and extremely lightweight. This is probably what's going to be used to build spacecraft in the future as well as planes and cars.

[LiberConservative]

Sliced nanotube is better than pepperoni on a pizza. YUMMMM!

[Vor Lady]

Some one must have been reading Old Man's War...it never gets explained in the book except to say the technology is borrowed from other sentient species.