With all this talk about space elevators and whatnot, people seem to have forgotten a good purpose for carbon nanotubes. The strongest dental floss ever could be produced. Because of its incredible strength it would soon become the most useful stuff after duct tape. Imagine: "OH, well... I don't have any rope but I can tow your car with this dental floss in my pocket". Makes an ideal present, and an easily disposable murder weapon. Yes... nanotube dental floss will be grand.
-- brewer, Mar 27 2004

And will provide an incentive to produce nanotubes for cheap!
-- my-nep, Mar 27 2004


I gotta pay more attention to stupid spelling errors, any good ideas for that?
-- brewer, Mar 27 2004


Even when nanotube becomes as cheap as dental floss, I doubt it would be suitable for that purpose.
-- DrCurry, Mar 27 2004


[brewer] We all make mistakes. I should no.
-- FarmerJohn, Mar 27 2004


On the plus side, it will help keep your teeth their whitest. On the minus-- it might cut your head off.
-- mackerm, Mar 27 2004


Reading that gave me the same sensation as watching someone chew on a ball of tin foil.
Have you ever seen how fast a wire saw can cut through a tree trunk. Ouch.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Mar 27 2004


here ya go brew.

[copy].....[Start]->[Programs]->[Microsoft Office]->[Microsoft Word]...[paste]....[tools]->[Spellcheck]
-- RayfordSteele, Mar 28 2004


Wouldn't it cut your gums up?
-- kropotkin, Mar 28 2004



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