Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That Conducts Electricity

Re:Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That C... by hwillis on Sunday December 18, 2016 @08:14PM (#13208781)

Proposals were made around 1000 km altitude at the lower tip. Boeing proposed a 600km tether with a transfer altitude of 100km (at mach 10), and later increased that to 150 km. The Lockheed U-2 is one of the highest flying airplanes ever, our main cold war spy plane. It flew twice as high as a passenger jet, and cruised at 70,000 feet, just over 21 km.

Planes would not get tangled in it.

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Re:Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That C... by bbcbasic on Monday December 19, 2016 @11:22PM (#13217449)

Thanks. The GP's comment "attach the string at, maybe, the equator of earth" is what confused me, thinking the string is attached to the earth, with the weight in orbit.

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