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New Supermaterial: As Strong As Steel And As Light As Styrofoam (hackaday.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

That's cool. Hopefully it is also safe to make for people and for nature around where it could be manufactured.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have yet to read an "as strong as / stronger than steel" that wasn't bullshit in some way.

You know what's stronger than steel? Glass. Ordinary glass. Yeah that's how they trick you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have yet to read an “as strong as / stronger than steel” that wasn’t bullshit in some way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah so far it seems to be stronger than steel in the same way that glass is. Where can I buy some graphene wire?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Any innovation that ever rises to the surface is just used to kill people. And most likely at some point in his process was developed by the military industrial complex. as well as it will most likely poison the planet.