I have been wondering about the possibility of medical science making breakthroughs that allows our bodies to utilize carbon in various ways other than how it currently does. Various types of carbon are among the strongest and hardest of substances. It seems quite likely that our bodies could be caused to utilize carbon in ways that are advantageous to us. Imagine having tendons that are reinforced with carbon nanotubes; or bones reinforced with carbon fiber or synthetic diamond (or both). Since carbon is such a common element in the human body already it might not be too outlandish to expect carbon variants to be biologically grown by us.
Just a thought for the day.
Just a thought for the day.
My problem with this is that most of the processes needed for producing these elements in the proper form are processes which require a TON of energy and/or chemical byproducts which are hazardous to the human body (Chemical vapor deposition, synthetic diamond creation, natural diamond creation). Another problem is that we have to be careful of such materials, if they conduct electricity as well as many carbon allotropes do.
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