[NicknamedBob]

Are you kidding? Buckytube fibers would cut through that stuff from Walmart like a cheese slicer.

[Dead Corpse]

Buckytubes are so yesterday. I'm working with borazon and aggregated carbon nanorod to create structures that make mere fullerene carbon tubes look like elbow sippy straws. You should see the mess this stuff makes of my anvil. An isothermal bulk modulus of 491 GPa makes it harder than natural diamond by a significant percentage.

Don't worry your head about it... the structural design team will be re-working a lot of the older steel supports to the much lighter, yet stronger ANCR and borazon composites. As long as we don't bump into anything denser than we are, we shouldn't have to worry too much about it. It'd help if we had a lot more carbon to play with. We might need to retro-fit some of it in flight if we come across any carbonaceous chondrite bodies between here and Mars.

I'd still be a lot happier if we could generate artificial gravity and come up with a structural integrity field.