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Originally Posted by Godogma
As for monowire look up bucky tubes. Not superscience, monomolecular wire exists. Buckminster fullerine tubes? Bah, I can't remember what the full name of it is, but bucky tubes is what it was called last I checked.
If I'm not misremembering due to extreme lack of sleep.
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Originally Posted by Crakkerjakk
They don't have anything like the characteristics of cyberpunk/sci-fi monowire though. For one thing, they're not gonna cut through your skin, they're just gonna hit you limply.
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Exactly.
Monofilament wire does exist, but it's not the omni-lethal "cut-through-anything" superweapon that cyberpunk fiction makes it out to be. (At least, not yet...)