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Balsa wood is extremely fragile. > Took us a long time to come up with a good carbon fiber tech tree. I don't know what this is supposed to mean

• canadianfella 6y ago
  He played civilization. Doesn’t mean much at all.
• m463 6y ago
  Balsa wood is extremely durable for its weight. > carbon fiber I think the "tech tree" of wood products has been around for hundreds of years. It's only been the last few decades where we have developed synthetic materials that were strong AND light. I would say carbon fiber and other composites have really only come into their element maybe since the 80's so with cost-insensitive projects like military jets.
  • CyberDildonics 6y ago
    > Balsa wood is extremely durable for its weight. Maybe compared to other wood. It is one step above cardboard. Why are you even bringing up carbon fiber? The above post was saying we can't create anything better than wood based on a title of a skyscraper being made of wood. The building isn't actually a skyscraper, it is actually made of wood, concrete and steel, and humanity isn't "struggling" to come up with better materials than wood. Wood is used because it has already been made. Airplanes, cars and boats aren't made out of balsa wood. They are made out of aluminum, steel and polymers. I have no idea how you hallucinated a reason to bring up carbon fiber. A single normal building made using more wood than normal does not mean anyone is 'struggling to come up with better materials than nature'. The above post is nonsense. Also if you look up specific strength you can see that balsa wood stacks up terribly compared to modern polymers and alloys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_strength https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_strength