Nanotube Muscles Are Strong As Steel, Light As Air

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 20, 2009 @09:11PM from the we-have-the-technology dept.

Al writes "Scientists from the University of Texas at Dallas have created nanotube-based artificial muscles that are light as air and work even under extreme temperatures. The 'muscles' expand width-wise by about 200 percent when a voltage is applied, but are stronger than steel lengthwise. The nanotubes within the fiber naturally stick together. Applying a voltage makes them obtain a charge and repel one another. The researchers created them by stretching bundles of entangled carbon nanotubes into long threads. Several cool videos show the strange stuff in action. Some experts, including one from NASA, believe that the nanotube muscles' ability to withstand extreme heat and cold could make them suitable shape-shifting materials for future space missions."

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w00t! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-20 21:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

First comment!
1. Re:w00t! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-20 21:18 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  w00t, first to fail!
2. Re:w00t! by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-20 21:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Your mom failed when she didn't abort you ;)
it's said the greatest fear of the so-called rich, by Anonymous Coward · 2009-03-20 22:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

is that one day the so-called poor would rise up & eat them.
WE (which negates blaming anybody) bought everything that they said/made, mostly on credit. we also mortgaged our futures buying their worthless payper. we also subsidized their greed/fear/ego based life0cidal 'lifestyles' & ambitions, perhaps to make up for the perceived shortcomings of our own.
our only purpose here is to care for each other. failing that (& who doesn't?), we're just passing through being distracted by the illusionary trappings of man'kind'.
there's no need to confuse/compare 'religion' with being a spiritual being. the lights are coming up all over now.