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Cambridge Team Spins Nanotube Yarn

Posted by michael on from the rumpelstiltzkin dept.

FridayBob writes "They say it's bound to happen soon, although nobody knows exactly how and when. Well, perhaps the answer has arrived. It now seems as though some bright folks at the Cambridge-MIT Institute have figured out a way to continuously spin carbon nanotubes into a fiber. Will it be strong enough for a space elevator?" They're getting closer to commercialization (see older story) but not there yet...

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  1. Re:Sudan by POWRSURG · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Some would even call it genocide. I have no problem with that.

    Wow! An Anonymous Coward that has no problem with genocide. What are the odds....

    /Yes, I understood what he meant.