[AlaskaErik]

For the scientific oriented FReeper.

[allmost]

I doubt it's commercial viability until it can be manufactured. This is earily similar to the ‘space elevator’ material I've been reading about for decades.

[The_Reader_David]

Three cheers for the discovery, but a boo and a couple of hisses for naming it 'fractal'.

Despite all the science press blather there are no fractals in nature. A fractal is a topological space of fractional Hausdorff dimension. The entire concept depends on the infinite divisibility of idealized mathematical spaces (there's always a number between any pair of distinct numbers once one allows fractions). Physical space is not infinitely divisible: if one attempt to measure a location finer than the Planck scale, a tiny black hole is created and the locations one is attempting to measure no longer exist. Thus there are no fractals in nature.

[RightWhale]

Lumberyard sells railroad ties that look like they have been run over by a parade of D-9 Cats for $10. Can’t imagine these nanofractal thingys would be cheaper.

[martin_fierro]

I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express^tm last night.