{"id":872,"date":"2007-11-17T14:54:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=872"},"modified":"2008-02-04T17:22:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T22:22:46","slug":"rather-a-special-sort-of-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rather a special sort of smoke&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/ASpecialSortOfSmoke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_ASpecialSortOfSmoke.jpg\"  height=\"115\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 115px\" \/><\/a>This is courtesy of Akira Tsuchida, team leader of <a href=\"http:\/\/earth-track-controllers.com\/\">E-T-C<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He sent me a link to a BBC video clip, showing the new 20 GPa nanotube fibers being created, an audio clip giving a short explanation of how it&#8217;s done and another audio clip explaining why these are suitable for body armor.<\/p>\n<p>All three clips can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/player\/nol\/newsid_7050000\/newsid_7053800\/7053840.stm?bw=bb&amp;mp=wm&amp;asb=1&amp;news=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Akira!<\/p>\n<p>(The picture thumbnail is a snapshot from the BBC Video clip &#8211; click on it for a slightly larger version)<\/p>\n<p><em>04FEB2008 &#8211; Correction.\u00a0 The best fiber strength was measured at 9 GPa, not 20 GPa as I (and others) initially reported.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is courtesy of Akira Tsuchida, team leader of E-T-C. He sent me a link to a BBC video clip, showing the new 20 GPa nanotube fibers being created, an audio clip giving a short explanation of how it&#8217;s done and another audio clip explaining why these are suitable for body armor. All three clips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}