Re: Nanofuture question


FWIW, excuse a belated response, but...

Helium isn't that much heavier than vaccuum. You gain only a small
advantage by replacing helium with hydrogen, and only another small
advantage replacing it with a vaccuum. Helium balloons are easy and
don't need particularly strong fabric to make.

That said, helium's quite expensive, so perhaps there'd be a market
for enormous diamond-balloon clusters full of nothing.

Another tangent... everyone seems to be planning on using nano-made
diamond to build bridges etc in the future. Is that the strongest
material one could make? Apparently carbon nitride is harder, tho
still in the lab as a theoretical material. Would that be stronger? I
know the carbon-carbon bond is one of the strongest, what about
anything else?

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