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The material doesn't exist, but the materials science certainly does. Carbon nanotubes are theoretically strong enough, and a ribbon made of nanotubes several centimeters long with a good epoxy gluing them together would do the trick, according to a NASA study by Bradley Edwards.

Nobody's achieved it yet, but plenty of people are working on it.



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