Comment on New Supermaterial: As Strong As Steel And As Light As Styrofoam

• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not for us plebians

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  the real problem is we keep trying from the ground up

  it’s going to win when we can lower it

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  • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember an Arthur Clarke novel where a space ship needs water from the planet below. The easiest thing is to lower cables from space and then lift some ice bergs.

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I get hints of a joke from your comment but I’m not certain, so I’ll mention that space elevators are currently impossible because the weight of the material to build it wouldn’t be able to support itself.

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