Re: beanstalks (was Re: Metallic hydrogen ...)
From: Christopher M. Jones (marmiteNOTSPAM_at_dualboot.net)
Date: 06/06/04
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Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 21:32:43 -0500
Uncle Al wrote:
> I hope you are in management. I sure as Hell wouldn't want you in
> design, production, or anywhere else where your embrace of physical
> reality had any material reverberations.
>
> A human hair is 60 microns in diameater, git. Pull your head out of
> your, well, here is is graphically for the slow of thinking,
You can buy Kapton films off the shelf now that
are less than 10 microns thick. Despite being so
thin they still have tensile strength. Imagine
that. Though nobody's proposing building a
beanstalk made out of kapton, or human hair.
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