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wired | March 19, 2009

From: Giant-Stroke, Superelastic Carbon Nanotube Aerogel Muscles. Science, V...

wired | March 19, 2009

From: Giant-Stroke, Superelastic
Carbon Nanotube Aerogel Muscles. Science, Vol. 323 Issue 5921, March 19, 2009.

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  • imagine a fleshlight with this technology built into it......i would be shooting blanks in a week

  • when can i make a suit out of em like in crysis

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  • @chair5432 like your fleshlight doesnt get pounded twice a day already, sure dude.

  • in all honesty, to use a suit made of something like that, you would either move at the same speed (i.e. the suit reads exactly what you were going to do, and does it at the exact same time your arm does) so you would be very strong, but not nesisarrily quicker, OR you would put someone in it, they would go to move, and the suit would move so fast that it broke their legs/arms, and the resulting spasms would break their neck and the rest of their bones.

  • @Oceanstorm80 Can't be done. A cybernetic arm using these muscles would ben to strong for the normal human body to handle, and you would wind up damaging yourself. If you only needed the lower arm replaced, you would have to replace the entire arm, plus all the muscles and bones in the shoulder and on that side of your chest and back. At that point you might as well replace everything and make an full blown cybernetic body with a human brain in it. Then the question is, is that person human?

  • @ForerunnerConstruct For people who need an extremity?

  • this is........i dont even know what im looking at, but it looks cool haha

  • not funny at all.

  • I can aquat 1,000 lbs lmao, yeah thats why im carefully with my arms.

  • Nanosuit or genocidal machines. Which one of these will they use those carbon nanotube muscles on first?

  • and a frikin laser on your head...lol

  • Ions. Nerve cells send impulses to the muscle cell which releases Calcium into the muscle cell starting the cycle of contraction. I don't know if transferring ions with nanotubes would be feasible though plus there is speculations that CNTs are toxic in similar ways that asbestos is.

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