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One of the more futuristic and outlandish applications of carbon nanotubes is in creating cables, strong enough, yet light enough to make a space elevator possible, for instance.
An entirely different application might be the creation of colossal skyways, say for instance, from the top of Everest
out for hundreds if not thousands of miles
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"Cellophane towers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
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"Where flocking cone people eat marshmallow pies,
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers" |
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Everest isn't much taller than the surrounding mountains, all of which sit on an elevated plateau, pretty much in the middle of nowhere useful. But that was a for-instance. |
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A skyway is a form of suspension bridge. Bridge designers are probably keeping an eye on developments on carbon nanotubes and carbon fiber, already. |
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It'll all end in tears when a neutrino impacts a C nucleus in a critical C=C bond. |
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/when a neutrino impacts a C nucleus/ |
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"The girl with collide-o-scope eyes". |
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for some strange reason the neutrino comment made me think of the following: |
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If Hawking radiation really exists, wouldn't the occasional particle wind up outside Shroedinger's box, amd tell us if the cat is alive? |
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Carbon fiber is often mentioned in the same breath as space elevator. I am not too clear on what these skyways are. What is a carbon fiber skyway? |
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I'm talking about a ski lift stretching for a thousand miles |
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Since diamonds are carbon, "Lucy in the sky with carbon nano tubes" would be a more distinct title. |
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Curvature of the surface of the Earth? |
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Tha'll be one kick-ass flying fox. Oxygen even. |
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