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Space elevator was the perfect application for carbon nanotubes according my professor few decades ago. I wish humanity could unite for such project and enter s
by lnsru 1y ago
Space elevator was the perfect application for carbon nanotubes according my professor few decades ago. I wish humanity could unite for such project and enter space exploration phase. But I feel it will stay sci-fi forever.
- tiagod 1y agoThing is, you're going to invest massive amounts of R&D in something that might be impossible, when you could invest in actually building stuff in space so you only need to shoot humans out there.
- floxy 1y agoInstead of massive amounts of R&D, why not small amounts for the next 100 years? Seems like this is something a tech bro could bequeath to humanity, Nobel style. A $250 million fund that pay out $10 million per year in grants. And maybe some larger chunks when the board of directors sees a good opportunity to do larger scale trials.
- tiagod 1y agoI'm pretty sure we've invested way more than $250m in carbon nanotubes.