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  • Category: Nanotechnology
  • Founded: Dec 2, 2007
  • Language: English
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69 r041051 iyer
ramacchandran_r Send Email
Dec 27, 2008
2:10 am
Dear Sirs, One Mr.Ganapathy has proved that he can measure atmosphere change in the world and detect vibrations created by  the planets. The cancer is due to...
70 r041051 iyer
ramacchandran_r Send Email
Dec 27, 2008
1:20 pm
When two clouds dashes each other it creates electricity in full which is equal to millions of units of power with high speed, that has the power to destroy...
71 abgrund666 Send Email Feb 22, 2009
3:30 am
Concerning the use of fabricators to assemble progressively larger machines: Won't these machines require at least some parts of progressively larger size? As...
72 r041051 iyer
ramacchandran_r Send Email
Apr 15, 2009
3:22 pm
Dear Sirs, I have completed my thesis on Vedas- A New Critical Analysis with special reference to Human body and Health" The university is taking a long time...
73 emma.weitkamp Send Email May 11, 2009
3:09 pm
Readers of this group might be interested in a recent themed issue of Science for Environment Policy focusing on Nanomaterials...
74 okerdavid Send Email May 11, 2009
3:09 pm
For a few years now, just the fact that CRN folks have ignored history of like the Greeks with the Spartans, Persians, and then the Romans; and then, the...
75 ramacchandran_r Send Email May 25, 2009
4:32 pm
Dear Sirs, If I denied admission with any of the universities in India, On the ground that I did Open University Masters, and is not recognized I wish to...
76 solidstatefusion
solidstatefu... Send Email
Dec 12, 2009
4:25 pm
Hello all. I described the nanofactory concept to someone and they responded with the following statements. I would like you all to examine this and pick apart...
77 solidstatefusion
solidstatefu... Send Email
Dec 12, 2009
4:27 pm
How would you all answer this skeptic on nanotechnology?> "Thanks for your article. I haven't read too much on the subject, but one of the obstacles I see to...
78 Chris Phoenix
chrisphoenix Send Email
Dec 13, 2009
3:34 am
These are good questions. First, the proposals do require supplying the needed chemical elements - no atom smashing. Plastic and food and plants have mostly...
79 Erin Casson
solidstatefu... Send Email
Dec 13, 2009
4:30 am
Good points, Chris. Yes, the original discussion had to do with a "General Purpose Nano Factory". I assume based on various designs that a more limited...
80 Chris Phoenix
chrisphoenix Send Email
Dec 15, 2009
9:48 pm
I like your writing. You've boiled down the various ideas into really simple straightforward phrasing. A couple of suggestions: Some might argue that stars are...
81 Erin Casson
solidstatefu... Send Email
Dec 16, 2009
3:25 am
Thank you, Chris, I appreciate your comments and suggestions! I'm considering writing a short and very basic book on molecular nanotechnology, more like a...
82 Erin Casson
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Dec 16, 2009
3:00 pm
I would like you all to give your views on how nanotechnology can be used to improve cutlery and knives. Obviously one place would be diamondoid blades that...
83 Chris Phoenix
chrisphoenix Send Email
Dec 16, 2009
9:43 pm
To me, this seems like a strange question. It seems obvious that nanotech will be able to improve knives quite a lot. Beyond that, you have to get into...
84 Erin Casson
solidstatefu... Send Email
Dec 17, 2009
2:56 am
Very interesting points, Chris, thank you. Regarding surfaces and cleaning/corrosion resistance, I wonder if this would work for early nanotech: We already...
85 Erin Casson
solidstatefu... Send Email
Dec 17, 2009
3:01 pm
Here is another possibility. In Larry Niven's science fiction books there is an ancient alien race that made what he calls a "Variable Sword". This is a...
86 Chris Phoenix
chrisphoenix Send Email
Dec 17, 2009
4:41 pm
Erin... I'm not aware of any work on using electrical fields this way. A lot of science fiction uses common-sounding science terms, like "electrical field,"...
87 Erin Casson
solidstatefu... Send Email
Dec 18, 2009
3:58 am
This is a very good point, Chris, thank you. In general I do try to stay as conservative as possible on these matters, sticking to what is known, such as the...
88 Erin Casson
solidstatefu... Send Email
Jan 13, 2010
3:14 pm
What surprises me is that even today there are still those who deny that mechanosynthesis is possible, even though there are abundant proofs of this from...
89 Chris Phoenix
chrisphoenix Send Email
Jan 26, 2010
9:39 pm
Sounds like you're already bringing up good pieces of evidence. Some people simply don't want to believe that a new thing is possible. I think it's more a...
90 Erin Casson
solidstatefu... Send Email
Jan 27, 2010
2:32 am
Thank you, Chris, that is a very good method. In regards to bootstrapping, if you were to label one as "easier" and one as more difficult, would you say...
91 Erin Casson
solidstatefu... Send Email
Jan 27, 2010
2:49 am
I've been following the work of Craig Venter and others for some time now, those developing synthetic DNA, synthetic cells, and reengineering bacteria and...
92 Chris Phoenix
chrisphoenix Send Email
Jan 27, 2010
7:37 am
Depends what you want to assemble. For large-scale manufactured engineered products, I suspect that "dry" materials will be easier to build high-performance...
93 Erin Casson
solidstatefu... Send Email
Jan 27, 2010
3:03 pm
The INCA system, Inter-Nodal-Connector-Architecture, essentially allows the fabrication of spherical, dome shaped and other geometric structures, from the...
94 Erin Casson
solidstatefu... Send Email
Jan 31, 2010
12:36 am
I'm an advocate for covering cities with domes made from tough, light, transparent materials, in order to have year-round comfortable controlled temperatures...
95 Erin Casson
solidstatefu... Send Email
Jan 31, 2010
1:52 am
An interesting thread of discussion that has been dealt with on other forums over years has to do with the use of currency in a nanotech-enabled world. If we...
96 tom@...
ttalleur Send Email
Jan 31, 2010
3:09 pm
Eric: You raise some interesting sociological questions which would take a short book to answer. Legions of philosophers along with the founders of the US...
97 Erin Casson
solidstatefu... Send Email
Apr 20, 2010
1:41 pm
The first nanofactories and industrial assembler systems will likely be special purpose units that require special inputs of chemical fuel and prefahricated...
98 Chris Phoenix
chrisphoenix Send Email
May 18, 2010
10:16 pm
Sorry for the delayed response... There are several different dimensions of what can be built. One is the materials used. One is the complexity of the product....
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