# So you've got Adamantium. Now what ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 28, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-got-adamantium-now-what/662111 "2013-06-28T12:53:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-got-adamantium-now-what/662111/21 "2013-06-29T00:54:05Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#): > > I’d mold it into the world’s smallest and most indestructible pop star. . . . Adamanteen? Yeah, I know, but mine is better. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-got-adamantium-now-what/662111/22 "2013-06-29T03:22:11Z")
> [@Enilno](#): > > How about making a space elevator? And we’re done. > [@Lightnin](#): > > Make a hollow ball, say ten meters across (or something… hey, I’m not a scientist). Put a nuke in there. Close the ball, leaving just a tiny pinprick hole. Detonate the nuke. > > You’ve now got a hell of a lot of cheap energy. The only way out for the energy is through the pinprick hole. It seems to me that it’d last a hell of a long time. > > Lots of uses: It’s a powersource (point it at water, use the steam to drive a turbine). It’s a rocket engine. It’s a freakin’ 1920s Style Death Ray. > > And when it does finally run out, just “melt” it down and put a new nuke in- no need to worry about the adamantium being radioactive, after all. Wouldn’t it just fly off into space? I vote for a +5 holy avenger. You can only make +5 weapons from adamantium. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-got-adamantium-now-what/662111/23 "2013-06-29T04:29:26Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Wouldn’t it just fly off into space? Yes, and you can use it to launch the space elevator. ---
**Author:** ![aNewLeaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@aNewLeaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aNewLeaf)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-got-adamantium-now-what/662111/24 "2013-06-29T11:11:34Z")
I’d like a space elevator… but how about a vacuum train in a subsurface orbital tunnel? Would we have enough adamantium to line the inside of the tunnel with an impervious and frictionless surface? And could we hamdance down the tunnel fast enough? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-got-adamantium-now-what/662111/25 "2013-06-29T19:06:29Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > I’d like a space elevator… but how about a vacuum train in a subsurface orbital tunnel? > Would we have enough adamantium to line the inside of the tunnel with an impervious and frictionless surface? Doesn’t seem like it, unless the stuff isn’t made from atoms. Suppose again that we have 250 cm^3 of the stuff, and also that we can thin it down to 1 nm. We then have 250,000 m^2 of plate. But that’s not nearly enough for a nice vacuum tunnel; even a modest freight tunnel of 100 km and 1 m diameter would need more than that, and a nice tunnel of 10,000 km and 10 m diameter would need about 1200 times more material. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-got-adamantium-now-what/662111/26 "2013-06-29T19:18:20Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#): > > I’d mold it into the world’s smallest and most indestructible pop star. He won’t follow fashion. That would be a joke. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2013, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-got-adamantium-now-what/662111/27 "2013-06-29T21:53:58Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If I remember correctly, Adamantium can only be molded _once_. Okay; just mold it into a ball with a hole big enough to pass a mini-nuke, and pop a new one in every few seconds, like a Project Orion boom-ship. Damn; this stuff would be really useful for rocket propulsion; one big problem is the high temperature of the rocket motor. A really powerful rocket would just melt or vaporise. There would be no such problem with magical adamantium. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2013, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-got-adamantium-now-what/662111/28 "2013-06-30T00:08:21Z")
Ball Bearings. Indestructable, _Undeformable_, Ball Bearings. I wins da Interwebs. 'Cause a little thing like that would make one Hell of an impact. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-got-adamantium-now-what/662111.md?page=1)