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Jin Zhang from the University of Peking,
carbon nanotubes
The miracle material that can do everything except escape a laboratory
they didn't link to the paper but apparently the researchers constructed enough to perform "ballistic tests" and determine its energy absorbing capability. they curiously don't say how much was constructed though.
So the inverse of a HELA cell, which can't do much except escape a laboratory?
Carbon nanotubes are like $200-500/g, cost:performance ratio just ain't there.
I'm sorry did you say 20,000 to 50,000/g?
BUT AT WHAT COST?
You mean to say that a newly discovered material, produced by a university at research-scale, is expensive? How surprising.
There will be a challenge in designing industrial production, sure, but remember that polymers used to be luxury items
I swear we’ve been talking about carbon nanotubes for like 20 years. Call me when they find a way to manufacture them
I have faith this will be sooner then later, Chinese industrial RND vs the Wests operate on completely different levels
I think you're probably right, but you'd still be just as right if you were less snide about it
why should they be less snide? snide, aggressive posting is a hexbear staple! especially when the user belongs to another instance.
Because it's a bad staple and socialists should stop fetishizing antisociality, plus that looks like a lemmitor so I don't know why we're discussing this in this first place. Looking at their profile, they were recently talking about how monopolies are fine, actually and Steam doesn't abuse its monopoly position, so I think it was a good read.
it's not even hexbear style posting, it's reddit passive aggressiveness that i was mentioning that i hate so much in the meta thread. it's very strange they are pro monopoly and pro china (so at least somewhat ok with socialism?) though lol, was it a poor attempt at expressing pro centralization (under the state) or something?
newly discovered material
These aren't newly discovered. Carbon nanotubes are one of the precursor ingredients to the newly discovered material, and they're actually very "easy" to make IIRC. What's difficult about them is they're very fiddly and labor intensive to make at even a small scale and no one's worked out how to make a large scale industrial process producing them on a useful scale yet despite decades of research on the subject.
Oh and any such industrial process would have to grapple with the fact that carbon nanotubes of a certain size are basically the same as asbestos dust (at a certain length the repair mechanisms in your lungs can't break them down and remove them, leaving little jagged spikes embedded more or less forever the way tiny asbestos fibers are).
The children in US public education yearn for carbon nanotubes.
No more kinetic weapons?
I was looking at tactical swords the other day, so now is my time to shine with my tactical khopesh.
I hope you get a sick scorpion tattoo on your sword hand
I need to ask, what is a tactical khopesh? how a khopesh can be tactical?
Just a modernized sword from what I gather
1.8mm thick is thin enough to make bullet proof drones with it
this is how we get the John Wick bulletproof suit.