On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 06:42:37PM -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote: > Yes or no answer is ok, since I'll read the more about it in the > archive: Would the proposed tensile strength be enough to handle > several hundred pounds of humans & equipment at a time?
Sure, it has to hold a lot more than that -- the vehicle to lift people and cargo would weigh tons. The material proposed is carbon nanofilament based. But no one has yet made a long length of it to test its properties on a large scale. -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
