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mk  ·  4829 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Graphene spun into metre-long fibres
Space elevators?!

Recent concepts for a space elevator are notable for their plans to use carbon nanotube or boron nitride nanotube based materials as the tensile element in the tether design, since the measured strength of carbon nanotubes appears great enough to make this possible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator