From: vince@offshore.ai (Vincent Cate) Newsgroups: sci.space.policy Subject: CNT Rope URL Prize (was Re: beanstalks ... References: <40C0B48F.F477E3F7@mchsi.com> <40C4920E.6B4BA5DB@hate.spam.net> <9186edb5.0406080454.e3b3188@posting.google.com> <40c609d0$0$551$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.42.133.252 Message-ID: <9186edb5.0406081701.2b7533ba@posting.google.com> Ian Stirling wrote in message news:<40c609d0$0$551$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>... > I've posted in the past about a thesis documenting a few micron rope > of shorter nanotubes achieving an overall strength of 54GPa. > This is quite adequate. In Feb on the yahoo group "space-elevator" someone claimed they had a URL showing a high tensile strength CNT rope but could not find it, so I posted a prize for the URL and nobody had one. So I will do the same thing here. I will pay $250 to the first person to post a URL to sci.space.policy for a site with a credible report of a carbon-nanotube rope more than 1 meter long and able to lift 1 Kg in normal gravity and having a tensile strength GPa of more than the last 2 digits of the current year (so 4.01+ GPa in 2004). > These were not glued together. How were they bound into a rope? -- Vince