Posted on 10/12/2013 12:44:48 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
Larry Niven had stuff like that in several stories. Stiffened by a force field, it's a sword. Flexible, it can be used to cut through things if you have a handle on each end (or a weight on one end which allows you to swing it).
I have a couple. Dad carried one in the pacific during WW 2. Good for small Japanese in jungle clothing. Did not work as well on bigger N Koreans and ChiComs with heavy quilted coats.
I like em. Lot of fun to plink with.
Fiberglass is a strong material made by putting very thin fibers of glass in a plastic resin matrix.
How strong might steel become if a given amount of Carbyne was mixed in?
carbyne, atom-thick chains of carbon
Henry Kroto, winner of the noble prize for the discovery of fullerenes writes: "common (chemical) sense suggests that any attempt to condense a pure linear sp -carbon chain into a solid will result in an explosion as the chains, if they get close, will crosslink exothermically."
The claim is based upon a computer calculation, not a measurement of the properties of a real material synthesized in the laboratory.
Niven came up with some great uses for it too.
Actually, it was the super duper mineral the fought over in Avatar.
It's also the substance they found when they biopsied a part of AlGore's brain looking for brain matter.
one atom thin... and you can put handles on it?
it’d cut thru anything
Pffft, you haven't been listening to zer0bama or dim-bulb-biden for the last 5 years.
It’s fun to play with until someone gets their head cut off.
YES!! A brand new packaging material to prevent consumers from gaining access to tje products they purchase. It already takes blowtorches and dynamite to open most plastic-wrapped products. Now it'll take 16 inch shells from retired battleships.
I think the Euler Buckling Load limit may cause problems before reaching compressive limits.
Ah right. The green lantern “element” was “hardtofindium”
Tough to keep these things straight :-)
True dat! LOL
Cheers!
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