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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Could this be used to make a space elevator?

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I think I remember reading that a structure strong enough would have to be wider than the earth

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 2 points 19 hours ago

The stronger the material the thinner it could be.

There are a lot of properties in the word 'stronger' though.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It would probably be strong enough, but not viable to manufacture.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"the manufacturing process of the 2D polymer is highly scalable"

First line of the article

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ok but there's 'high' and then there's 'low earth orbit'.

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[–] AAA@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Scalability is not viability.

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[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Goes on to form company called General Products, builds spacecraft hulls. 😉

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Please, could we move to Known Space?

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

hello I would like to order a thousand full plate mails

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 19 points 1 day ago

molecular chainmail

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Surely I can't be the only one who thought this were interleaved DNA chains

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

China, please respect this secret. Its made up with grapheme threads. Its impossible to understand exactly so we made a little picture with the molecules and such so you can't copy it.

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