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flashgordon

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Registered: 2003-01-21

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Re: advancements towards space elevators

http://www.nanotech-now.com/UTDallas-re … 112003.htm

http://www.netcomposites.com/news.asp?1699

Josh Cryer

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Registered: 2001-09-29

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Re: advancements towards space elevators

Wow, that's simply amazing! 55% improvement with only 4% nanocarbon!

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Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.

Josh Cryer

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Registered: 2001-09-29

Posts: 3,830

Re: advancements towards space elevators

I believe this should be the ?offical? space elevator thread. So any space elevator related news, should to be posted here. (Just so we don't wind up cluttering the forum.)

So, to kick it off, here's an interesting development: http://www.news24.com/News24....00.html

University of Texas scientists say they have outdone the spider and its lab-coat imitators by spinning a fibre made of carbon nanotubes - the microscopic tubes of carbon that have remarkable properties, being tough, light and inert yet able to conduct heat and electricity.

Ray Baughman and colleagues, writing in Thursday's issue of the British science weekly Nature, say they have experimentally made up to 100 metre lengths of fibre, at the rate of 70 centimetres per minute.

Now that's what I call progress.

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Some useful links while MER are active. [url=http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html]Offical site[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html]NASA TV[/url] [url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/]JPL MER2004[/url] [url=http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/statustextonly.html]Text feed[/url]
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The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth totals some 3.9 million exajoules a year.

flashgordon

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Registered: 2003-01-21

Posts: 314

Re: advancements towards space elevators

just think, that billions of dollars for nanotech research passed by capital hill has only just started kicking in . . . imagine how much stuff we're going to have over the next decade . . . i think nasa and even the x-prize people are going to be constantly rethinking the possible.