If steel is real, how about..
05-18-09, 08:14 PM
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How'd you build a star out of neurons? Ewww.
I think you might be missing a "t" Old Man.
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05-18-09, 08:17 PM
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I'm in. Seems a bit spendy though. 
05-18-09, 08:25 PM
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But your bike would weigh more than the earth!!
05-18-09, 08:26 PM
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"Neuron Star Crust"?
Is that the stuff that accumulates on Cpt. Kirk's Depends?
Is that the stuff that accumulates on Cpt. Kirk's Depends?
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I saw a thing on Discovery channel yesterday (it poured raining all day) about synthetic spider webs, made from some milk from goats with spider-DNA somehow melded to their own goat DNA. Then they take the milk, and somehow make really strong fibers, much stronger than steel, etc. [seriously, who could make that up, I really saw it]. The whole time I was watching it, I was thinking about how they should try to make that stuff into a frame. I'm holding out for the goat milk/spider web bike, its inevitable that somebody will try it.
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05-18-09, 08:39 PM
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modern physics, where they say "really big" and "super-strong"
05-18-09, 08:40 PM
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I saw a thing on Discovery channel yesterday (it poured raining all day) about synthetic spider webs, made from some milk from goats with spider-DNA somehow melded to their own goat DNA. Then they take the milk, and somehow make really strong fibers, much stronger than steel, etc. [seriously, who could make that up, I really saw it]. The whole time I was watching it, I was thinking about how they should try to make that stuff into a frame. I'm holding out for the goat milk/spider web bike, its inevitable that somebody will try it.
05-18-09, 08:49 PM
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stole your bike
But is it laterally stiff and vertically compliant? Also, what are the weight savings between that and high modulus carbon? Group buy and I'm in.
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05-19-09, 12:34 AM
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Weight weenies beware:
Neutron stars are so dense that if you could dip a teaspoon into one of them and scoop out some of its neutrons the spoon would weigh 100 million tons.
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05-19-09, 07:49 AM
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Neuron Star Crust?
I want a bicycle frame made from NSC.
Who's with me?
I want a bicycle frame made from NSC.
Who's with me?
05-19-09, 08:54 AM
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I saw a thing on Discovery channel yesterday (it poured raining all day) about synthetic spider webs, made from some milk from goats with spider-DNA somehow melded to their own goat DNA. Then they take the milk, and somehow make really strong fibers, much stronger than steel, etc. [seriously, who could make that up, I really saw it]. The whole time I was watching it, I was thinking about how they should try to make that stuff into a frame. I'm holding out for the goat milk/spider web bike, its inevitable that somebody will try it.
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05-19-09, 09:05 AM
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https://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/SU/spider.php
Don't have time to look into glycine and alanine right now, but it looks interesting.
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Crust or bust!
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