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The most promising of these muscle analogs are built from carbon nanotubes;
those babies can store elastic energies ten times as great as elastomers, 250 times as great as human muscle.
Both your biceps could be replaced by a wire of the stuff only 8mm thick.
Think about that. An 8mm cord of artifical muscle with the lifting power of two human arms.
Now look at all those corded bundles wrapped around the Nanosuit;
the ability to kick a car across the boulevard doesn’t seem quite so implausible, does it?
Inside Crysis: Be Strong, Be Fast
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