Technology
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
Could this be used to make a space elevator?
I think I remember reading that a structure strong enough would have to be wider than the earth
It would probably be strong enough, but not viable to manufacture.
"the manufacturing process of the 2D polymer is highly scalable"
First line of the article
Ok but there's 'high' and then there's 'low earth orbit'.
That's what my dispensary tells me too
My man!
Scalability is not viability.
hello I would like to order a thousand full plate mails
Goes on to form company called General Products, builds spacecraft hulls. 😉
Please, could we move to Known Space?
molecular chainmail
Of course it's plastic.
it's very lightweight though, so it could reduce plastic usage by mass, by reinforcing plastic/other materials.
There's also no reason why polymers need to be made out of oil: See PLA, cellophane, viscose, etc.
Whether or not it’s plastic isn’t as big an issue as whether or not it’s biodegradable within a realistic timeframe.
everything is degradable with enough heat
I mean, we have tried to completely stop, or at least slow, the refinement of crude oil, because there's so much fucking byproduct that is made from it and is subsequently recycled and converted into plastic. What else can we do with all that fucked up petroleum byproduct besides make it all into some form of usable plastic?
I'm sure it will mix well with the depleted uranium smoke the targeted crew will already be breathing.
Microplastic, even
Surely I can't be the only one who thought this were interleaved DNA chains
China, please respect this secret. Its made up with grapheme threads. Its impossible to understand exactly so we made a little picture with the molecules and such so you can't copy it.