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A research team from Tsinghua University in Beijing has developed a fibre they say is so strong it could even be used to build an elevator to space.
They say just 1 cubic centimetre of the fibre – made from carbon nanotube – would not break under the weight of 160 elephants, or more than 800 tonnes. And that tiny piece of cable would weigh just 1.6 grams.
"This is a breakthrough," said Wang Changqing, a scientist at a key space elevator research centre at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian who was not involved in the Tsinghua study.
The Chinese team has developed a new "ultralong" fibre from carbon nanotube that they say is stronger than anything seen before, patenting the technology and publishing part of their research in the journal Nature Nanotechnology earlier this year.
"It is evident that the tensile strength of carbon nanotube bundles is at least 9 to 45 times that of other materials," the team said in the paper.
But hey, it's China, please consume with a medium-sized boulder of salt.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday October 27 2018, @01:53AM (5 children)
"They" who?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 27 2018, @02:53AM (1 child)
> "They" who?
Hey, get with the program, conspiracy theory doesn't require any basis in reality, so "they" is a perfectly good name for "them".
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Saturday October 27 2018, @04:23AM
Sorry, I'm still lingering in the "The Man" stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by legont on Saturday October 27 2018, @05:12AM (1 child)
What's the difference? I mean do you have a better proposal? Short of nuking China, of course. One can't seriously propose to have 5 times higher productivity; not for long anyway.
There is a third way - the old British idea - to split China into a number of coastal republics and poor interior, but my gut feeling they - Chinese commies I mean - would resist.
So, which conspiracy theory sounds better?
My personal opinion is that the US should stop "solving this problem" as well as "other problems" out there and quit being an empire and become a normal country. Great, but not the first. We are too small to be the first.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday October 27 2018, @06:54AM
The difference is the crocodiles are more green?
I just asked the question. Let me rephrase: who are "they" in "Perhaps this is what they plan?".
And all I got a wall of text that doesn't makes sense to me in the context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday October 27 2018, @06:49AM
Well, They of course. You don't know Them? Of course you don't; that's the point of a conspiracy, right? :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.