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Term: Category =   "Space Materials"

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1.	Biological Spaceships
	Description: The ships are fully(?) biological. The exist as an own lifeform which allows their owners to travel through space. They have the feature that they can "repair" themselves just like any other ...

2.	Monocarbon Fibres
	Description: There is another feasible molecule that would be even stronger than bucky tubes, and that is monocarbon fiber: a polymer of carbon whose monomer is C2 (i.e.: two carbon atomes linked by a triple bond ...

3.	Nano-machine
	Description: In biological systems a cell finds and reads the gene for the production of the particular enzyme if it needs a specific process to be done and calls on a molecular machine, a ribosome, to build it.

4.	Regolith
	Description: Regolith consists of all earth materials above fresh bedrock. It includes soils, sediments, weathered rock, and hard near-surface crusts formed by cementing of otherwise soft earth materials.

5.	Shock Absorbing Foam
	Description: The futuristic car was badly hit but the two passengers were safe because of the high-pressure foam which almost instantaneously filled up the car and hardened, do to a safety mechanism built in the ...