Nanotubes (Score 1)

Let me qualify my statement. I am a professor of chemistry at a top ten school in the US. The materials-related claims that are made in the rebuttal are far-fetched. How can the interviewee state that 'we could build one today' if we can, at best, produce several grams of CNTs using the Smalley technology, which is probably as good as it gets right now. Where would the other nanotubes come from? Aliens? I agree that this is science fiction not science. Chance favors the prepared mind and this is a case that, as many readers have pointed out, is best characterized by a group of developers waiting for miracles to spontaneously occur.