New material 10 billion times stronger than steel!!

[My_Friend]

Scientists have found a material that's so perfect, it's 10 billion times stronger than steel. The bad news is, it only exists on the surface of neutron stars for now.

If it can be made on earth the possibilities are mind boggling: skyscrapers that are miles high, space elevators, bird shot that rips through the heaviest terrorist armor, safer cars,...



http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ss&nsref=space

[ThirstyPretzels]

adamantium

[AMERICAZHUSTLA]

adamantium

cod4 crew huh do u play on xbox

[ThirstyPretzels]

ps3

[otrebmu]

10 billion is a fcuking lot

[My_Friend]

10 billion is a fcuking lot

yep

[devinn]

robots would then become indestructable as well, and then they will take over the world.......

[Workout4ever]

how much stronger is diamond compared to steel? to make a comparison

[LLoydBanks]

great so they found my cawk.

[jack90]

its called Rearden metal.

[My_Friend]

great so they found my cawk.

hai Mr Banks

[matix1]

10 billion is a fcuking lot

lmao that was funny for some reason

[norcalsfinest]

its probobally so heavy they wouldnt be able to make or build any thing with it. in that link it says the mass of the sun in 20 kilometers..

[lamboex]

i tought titanium was the strongest metal

[Maestro]

Scientists have found a material that's so perfect, it's 10 billion times stronger than steel. The bad news is, it only exists on the surface of neutron stars for now.

If it can be made on earth the possibilities are mind boggling: skyscrapers that are miles high, space elevators, bird shot that rips through the heaviest terrorist armor, safer cars,...



http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ss&nsref=space

But it could also be the next asbestos.
You know, some deadly carcinogen with a half life of 100k years.

[paleozoic]

bird shot that rips through the heaviest terrorist armor

not if the terrorists make their armor out of this material....

btw op steel isnt the strongest material on earth, diamonds are

yes and we should be using them because diamonds are so affordable and easy to mold into skyscrapers...

[otrebmu]

how much stronger is diamond compared to steel? to make a comparison

x2

simply for comparison sake. diamond can't be molded into beams to support buildings, but neither do we know if this new material can.

[-SLIX-]

steel is stronger, but titanium is stronger for its weight

lol wut?

[chumbucket_]

wtf is terrorist armour? terrorists don't wear armour.

[-SLIX-]

Scientists have found a material that's so perfect, it's 10 billion times stronger than steel. The bad news is, it only exists on the surface of neutron stars for now.

If it can be made on earth the possibilities are mind boggling: skyscrapers that are miles high, space elevators, bird shot that rips through the heaviest terrorist armor, safer cars,...



http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ss&nsref=space

btw if its 10 billion times stronger.. how thaey going to mould or cut it? lol


or it melts at the same temp as steel?

[absolutexpinoy]

epic bumper cars.

[chevy72blu]

whats the density of that shiz?

did not click link.

[gouscfootball]

It probably has a melting point of 100,000,000 degrees and would be ridiculously heavy and radioactive. It wouldn't be used for anything on Earth, but maybe as part of a solar panel to catch energy from large stars...who knows

[iron619]

Scientists have found a material that's so perfect, it's 10 billion times stronger than steel. The bad news is, it only exists on the surface of neutron stars for now.

If it can be made on earth the possibilities are mind boggling: skyscrapers that are miles high, space elevators, bird shot that rips through the heaviest terrorist armor, safer cars,...



http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ss&nsref=space

My mind is blown (srs).

[chumbucket_]

btw if its 10 billion times stronger.. how thaey going to mould or cut it? lol


or it melts at the same temp as steel?

x2

and considering it exists on the surface of neutron stars it probably has a much higher melting point than steel.

[trifle]

steel is stronger, but titanium is stronger for its weight

lol wut?

^^ haha wut, how does that work??

[My_Friend]

its probobally so heavy they wouldnt be able to make or build any thing with it. in that link it says the mass of the sun in 20 kilometers..

good point... if it's 10 billion times heavier than steel it's not very useful... if it's just say a million times heavier it can still be used in very thin but strong plates or wires.

[FKAri]

This substance on the surface of a neutron star is a perfect crystal; more perfect than anything that can be made on Earth. It wouldnt be a billion times heavier than steel but it would be alot heavier (10-100 times?).

Most of that Neutron star mass is coming from the core mass of the star. The core mass is composed of tightly packed neutrons (the gravity is so intense that it has fused all the atoms together into a pack of atomic nuclei without all the space that atoms usually have between them) which are alot heavier and alot stronger (in terms of strength per area not mass).

Hi Jamie. A neutron star weighs a few times that of our Sun. Two solar masses is about 2/3 of a MILLION Earth masses. And all of it would be packed into a ball only about 30km or so across.

To a neutron star, the Earth is almost like just another cloud of gas about 12,800 km acoross. It wouldn't punch through the Earth - the Earth would fall in its tremendous gravitational gradient and be destroyed by it. And as it fell toward it, the Earth would be tidally disrupted end up thourougly vaporized, turned into a hot gas of plasma that furiously drains onto the neutron star in an accretion disk surrounding it.

From first disruption to final draining away of the accretion disk would probably last less than a minute.

lol @ this comment.

[Coal Man]

this thread blows my mind

I can't even conceive something 1,000 times stronger than steel...but TEN BILLION?


WTF

[Get_Murked]

The material on neutron stars, white dwarfs, etc is extremely dense, that the size of a quarter would be weight the size of a skyscraper, or even a mountain.