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pachi
from yo momma (United States) on 2003-03-14 21:50 [#00596032]
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quantum manufacturing?
i.e. nanotechnology having the potential to literally create anything
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cygnus
from nowhere and everyplace on 2003-03-14 22:13 [#00596034]
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i read something about this several days ago...
go to your local store, deposit a television and several radios, and get back a stereo system. fucking k-rad
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Duble0Syx
from Columbus, OH (United States) on 2003-03-14 22:18 [#00596036]
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Why go to the store when you could have your own Nanomachine? If they were cheap to make any one would be able to buy one. Guys would have it build them women. People could have them build guns, or bombs, or viruses, or bigger dicks. It would be nice to not worry about starving, but I'd rather not have to worry about the risks involved.
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Crocomire
from plante (United States) on 2003-03-14 22:28 [#00596041]
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awesomest shit ever! i love it
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theo himself
from +- on 2003-03-15 04:24 [#00596183]
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this science is just mind-blowing to me.. I've been studying it for a few months now and I still am unable to grasp the ultimate (or eventual at least) potential of it's facilitation.. we'll never know what will/could be until it's going on, today, in the present
my guess is that it will be very contained (as I'm sure there will be a lingering political philosophy in the US rooted in tight-assed conservatism preventing this technology from being fully realized .. even though denying its getting out of control is a good thing) and reserved for a very limited amount of [privilaged] people and [dire] situations.. this is most likely because in the outset, this is likely to cost the government, or whoever's interested a few dollars
anyway, a few months ago there was something in the new york times magazine (I think it was) written by michael chrichton (jurassic park) detailing the many potential uses of nanotech (the book he was concurrently promoting, prey is about a swarm of out of control nanomachines wreaking havoc on earth, a feared danger of self-reproducing nanomachines) through nanotechnology one could change the color (and design, shape, texture ANYTHING, come to think of it- yet since this technology will most likely not escape the corporate stranglehold that has taken the internet et al and used it to sell its products..I'll think of some ways this can be used to sell, concerning vain things like personal appearence, clothes, makeup, cars etc) of.. basically anything.. your hair color, skin tone, tattoos can now be as temporary as one chooses, the paint job of ones celica can be changed many times even in one day, eye color.. fuck anything
also, since most things can be formed out of nanomachine clouds there would be no more solid WALLS.. meaning, yes, no clipping mode would be on AND YOU COULD WALK THROUGH THE FUCKING WALL !!!>@! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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theo himself
from +- on 2003-03-15 04:25 [#00596184]
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AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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tibbar
from harrisburg, pa (United States) on 2003-03-15 04:26 [#00596186]
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i dont get it...
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Cfern
from Sacto (United States) on 2003-03-20 03:36 [#00605296]
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fucking trippy
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Refund
from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-03-20 04:10 [#00605340]
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A more serious danger of nanomachine technology involves the ability to self replicate. Imagine that a nanomachine has the ability to make a copy of itself by rearranging the atoms contained in any nearby matter. Since it is producing an exact copy of itself, it is likely that the 'offspring' machine will be able to replicate. This is, after all, the way in which nanotechnologists intend to keep the cost of nanomachines down.
So now we have 2 nanomachines that can replicate. One more cycle will produce 2 more, which leaves a total of 4.
4 becomes 8.
8 becomes 16.
16 becomes 32, and so on.
After only 27 generations we would have over 134 million nanomachines on our hands. Since they are molecular, this doesn't seem like a big number. But the number could keep growing. After 39 generations there would be over 549 billion nanomachines on the planet. The point is obvious. Without a way of controlling the reproduction of nanomachines, the planet is in danger of being over run. Furthermore, since the nanomachines are using the planet's resources as raw material with which to replicate, the danger is that the planet could eventually be transformed into a seething mass of nanomachines.
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Ceri JC
from Jefferson City (United States) on 2003-03-20 04:13 [#00605344]
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Yep- an ultimate matter destroying virus :)
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Refund
from Melbourne (Australia) on 2003-03-20 04:16 [#00605352]
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it would be alright if they were all edible, it would then be useful us, instead of harmful....
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