Nanotech has come a log ways since the advent of the bucky ball. Now we have super plastic! MSNBC did an article on a breakthrough by scientists of the nanoscale order. They have figured out a way to layer polymers to create a transparent piece of plastic that has the tensile strength of steel.
Unfortunately the time it would take to make something large and useful is measured in light years. By the time they made something cool we could be moving to mars because the sun is running out of steam.
Actually I lied. The process is simple and super plastic could be forming unbreakable Tupperware within a year. Expect it to be on the pricey side of the moon though.
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"Unfortunately the time it would take to make something large and useful is measured in light years."
Light years measures DISTANCE, not time. A light year is one year long.
Aha... Good point. But a light year is also, wait for it... A year!
No, a light year is a unit of DISTANCE. It is how FAR light TRAVELS in one year.
What you said it like saying it takes me 60 MPH to download a file, because MPH is also an HOUR.
American education FTL.
I know what you mean. I don't mean for the phrase to be taken literaly. It's more of an attempt to be funny. I will change it. Do you have any suggestions?
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