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   From: kwicker1b_nospam@comcast.net   
      
   "ANIM8Rfsk"  wrote in message   
   news:BF84E593.59363%ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net...   
   > in article 3slul1dq4i16u8dal5tjjgqclhuoso9arh@4ax.com, Jack Bohn at   
   > jackbohn@bright.net wrote on 10/26/05 3:28 AM:   
   >   
   >> 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?   
   >   
   > Well, space isn't actually 'cold' -- the space around us is getting as   
   > much   
   > sunlight as the Earth is.  The end of your wire would be nice and warm   
   > while   
   > it was in sunlight.   
   >   
   > --   
   >   
   > You Can't Stop the Signal   
   >   
   >   
      
   What about when it's on the dark side of Earth, like the Moon? >=^>   
      
   -- Ken from Chicago   
      
   P.S. Would it be cold in the middle, like flying to the upper atmosphere is   
   colder because of the thinner atmo, lower air pressure than at lower   
   altitudes? There would be enough atmosphere for conduction before getting   
   out to "true" space.   
      
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