To: Alas Babylon!
What do you make the cable out of?
33 posted on
07/17/2015 6:14:14 AM PDT by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: from occupied ga
What do you make the cable out of?
Robert Forward theorized using what he called carbon fiber hextube. (Something that actually exists today)
34 posted on
07/17/2015 6:18:38 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: from occupied ga
Carbon fiber nanotubes is the current specification.
35 posted on
07/17/2015 6:20:38 AM PDT by
SJSAMPLE
To: from occupied ga
Seriously I've been reading about this:
Artificial Spider Silk!
Yes, the material used would have to be 100's of times stronger than our most exotically strongest materials. But we have a lot to learn and the potential is enormous.
Some say carbon nanotubes. Imagine combining this with large scale, manufactured spider silk with strands thousands of kilometers long.
47 posted on
07/17/2015 10:32:26 AM PDT by
Alas Babylon!
(As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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