Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'

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carbon nanotube dental floss
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With all this talk about space elevators and whatnot, people seem to have forgotten a good purpose for carbon nanotubes. The strongest dental floss ever could be produced. Because of its incredible strength it would soon become the most useful stuff after duct tape. Imagine: "OH, well... I don't have any rope but I can tow your car with this dental floss in my pocket". Makes an ideal present, and an easily disposable murder weapon. Yes... nanotube dental floss will be grand.

brewer, Mar 27 2004

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       And will provide an incentive to produce nanotubes for cheap!

my-nep, Mar 27 2004
  

       I gotta pay more attention to stupid spelling errors, any good ideas for that?

brewer, Mar 27 2004
  

       Even when nanotube becomes as cheap as dental floss, I doubt it would be suitable for that purpose.

DrCurry, Mar 27 2004
  

       [brewer] We all make mistakes. I should no.

FarmerJohn, Mar 27 2004
  

       On the plus side, it will help keep your teeth their whitest. On the minus-- it might cut your head off.

mackerm, Mar 27 2004
  

       Reading that gave me the same sensation as watching someone chew on a ball of tin foil.
Have you ever seen how fast a wire saw can cut through a tree trunk. Ouch.
  

       here ya go brew.   

       [copy].....[Start]->[Programs]->[Microsoft Office]->[Microsoft Word]...[paste]....[tools]->[Spellcheck]

RayfordSteele, Mar 28 2004
  

       If the blue sky you see in nanotube applications was being hyped by a mining company then I'd ask, "Who's gonna save me?"

UnaBubba, Mar 28 2004
  

       Wouldn't it cut your gums up?

kropotkin, Mar 28 2004
  
      
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