Originally Posted by allgoo19
Carbon nanotube
One use of this material I have heard of is that connect a satellite to a station on the ground with a ribbon made of carbon nanotube, use it as a rope to bring the elevator up and down between them instead of using rocket to go back and forth. Believe it or not, it's a serious project.
Read a similar article. Fascinating stuff. It would be about a meter wide and solar powered robots would climb it at 220mph. It was estimated this could become reality in 20-30 years.