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May 06
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The Space Elevator: Going down?
Study shows that proposed carbon nanotube cables won't hold up. Defects of missing carbon atoms would dramatically weaken the tensile strength of cables.

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060522/full/060522-1.html

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