Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beihang University mixed diamond powder with carbon nanotubes, heating it to 2,000 degrees Celsius under immense pressure. The result is a composite five times tougher than regular diamond, potentially strong enough for the ultra-lightweight tether in a 66,000-mile space elevator anchored to an ocean platform.>https://archive.ph/klpte
>imagine you're on a several hour elevator ride in a tiny elevator filled with jeets>someone farts
>>541774595How the fuck are you supposed to make a cable out of that?
>>541774844make nano tubes out of it
>>541774970Yeah and how do you link them together? It's formed under immense pressure.
>>541775019Your mom can sit on it
>>541774595>new Space Elevator thread>Milo's in the news againShit it really is 2014 again. But why not just have multiple cables made out of less expensive material as your support structure instead of spending a bazillion dollars on vaporware?
>>541774595Sky hooks would be cheaper and safer.
>>541775143Oh yeah, didn't that prosecutor chick make the news again too?
>>541774595One problem will remain: You can break even the hardest shit in the universe via a long enough lever. If it's a thin tube or wire or beam the shearing forces need not be particularly strong if only this lever is long enough. And 66,000 miles is a lever that probably even an ant could break huge diamonds with.
>>541775081Touche.
>>541774595>idea is as old as i remember>wonder why noone build it yet>forgot space is fake and gay
polycrystaline graphene is old news. you cant properly work with it because its only 1 atom thick sheet. and not a single word about that diamond infused carbon fibre faggot OP was claiming.the idea of a space elevator is mega rerarded too.
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not political.move this to >>>/sci/>>541775555>cricketssssss
>>541774595>five times tougher than regular diamondit's not about toughnessits about elasticity while being as tough as metal this compound might be it, doubt. Tho if i would to bet china will be the first to build space elevatorand it would cement they economical victory
What matters for a space elevator is not the strength, it's the strength/weight ratio. 5x on diamond is not nearly enough. You need like 1000x. I'm not even joking, I've run the numbers myself.The only materials with properties like this are carbon nanotubes and similar graphene composites. But the issue is that they can't be manufactured in the scales we're talking about. We can make microscopic strands, but we can't line up the strands into longer strands, that's the problem. Honestly you need some sort of nanotech, which means you need an upgrade in battery technology. Better batteries --> nanotech --> nanotubesGot me?
>>541774595>modern day jacob's ladderThis has to be a joke, and i'm not gonna laugh
