Carbon Nanotubes
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IM GONNA USE NANOTUBES TO MAKE MY DICK SUPER BEAST:D
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00:24 "About a centimetre (About half an inch)". Seems so unjust when talking about carbon nanotubes!!
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CLOAK ENGAGED
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@Virusly can't say i needed to watch it twice to understand it
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@paranoid492 MAXIMUM OWNAGE
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Take that Diamond!
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0:12 thumbs up if you have to watch that part twice to get it
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There is a competition every year to build the strongest nanotube tethers. If the winner gets a strength/mass ratio of over 20GPa (I think), they win $2,000,000 from NASA, because tethers of this strength can be used to make space elevators. No one has yet succeeded, but strengths much higher than this have been observed for small samples (5 grams is required for the competition). The theoretical limit is 200GPa - definitely enough for orbital elevators. These are exciting times we live in.
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good video
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Umm... I think it's wrong... "nano" means "dwarf/small".... thus getting it's name..
but it's sure a billionth of a meter
MAXIMUM STRENGTH
paranoid492 2 years ago 67
I'm going to laugh when a huge lock cutter breaks when trying to cut something one thousandth the diameter of a piece of hair.
Planbskate230 2 years ago 34