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Title: Centennial Challenge From NASA
Post by: asian1 on March 25, 2005, 09:52:26 AM

http://exploration.nasa.gov/centennialchallenge/cc_index.html

NASA's program of prize contests to stimulate innovation and competition in solar system exploration and ongoing NASA mission areas. By making awards based on actual achievements, instead of proposals, Centennial Challenges seeks novel solutions to NASA's mission challenges from non-traditional sources of innovation in academia, industry and the public.

Title: Re: Centennial Challenge From NASA
Post by: Cymric on March 25, 2005, 12:42:20 PM

A tensile strength of 150 GPa for a CNT wire? Currently, the record stands at 52 GPa, in line with theoretical predictions from the strength of the carbon-carbon bond. I'm quite afraid that the challenge is a dud, simply because they are asking for a material that is made of atoms, but held together more tightly than atoms can hold on to each other. If a clever bloke manages to solve that little problem, he deserves more than a measly $50,000, he deserves the Nobel prize weighing in at over $1,000,000!

Title: Re: Centennial Challenge From NASA
Post by: Karlos on March 25, 2005, 01:12:26 PM

Hehe, cue molecular-bindng-force generators :lol: