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|    Jack Bohn to Rich    |
|    Re: Life Imitates 'Star Trek'    |
|    26 Oct 05 06:28:24    |
      XPost: rec.arts.sf.tv       From: jackbohn@bright.net              Rich wrote:              >Check this out. This is the kind of material they want       >to build the transport system for the "Space Elevator" with.       >       > 'Buckypaper': stronger than steel, harder than diamonds       >       >Working with a material 10 times lighter than steel - but 250 times       >stronger - would be a dream come true for any engineer. If this       >material also had amazing properties that made it highly conductive of       >heat and electricity,              Running something highly conductive of heat up from the equator       to the cold of space... What would the effects of that be?              --       -Jack              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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