gster is this what you were on about??

https://alephzero.co.uk/what.htm

interesting idea!!

Mayaniac

I believe the nano tubes you are on about were based on the spider web principle?? Where the tensile strength of a spider web and its marvellous construction is 10 times stronger than the strongest steel we have yet devised on a scalar level??? They have used the principle in fishing line stringing the polymers together similar to the web to give a fantastic resistant strength, COUPLED with the elasticity of a true web, therefore giving it a much greater prospect of surviving multiple stresses.

This is being applied to building material as we speak, maybe one day in the future our bridges will be made of the stuff (as you stated) and when we return to the caves our ancestors will marvel at them as we do the pyramids. The beauty lies in natures design people!!!! we need not invent it, it is already there, as a wonderful being we are able to adapt these things to our own purpose.

Check out the doco's "Extreme Engineering" guys, if you are interested in construction (yes I am a Surveyor so yes I am), then check it out. It steers away from the sci-fi alien stuff but is real and marvellous. It makes me wonder some times why, as a species, we can be so cold and cruel to each other YET get together to accomplish what the dinosaurs couldnt.

cheers bullet