Dudlington Posted November 24, 2001 Share Posted November 24, 2001 Hey, I'm just wondering if anyone here is into (Drexlerian) nanotechnology...Not just shrinking things down to the nano-sized scale, but the idea of making an assembler that can build essentially anything made of common atoms one atom at a time, ie diamonds from carbon, food from dirt and air, nanobots to hunt down cancer cells, respirocytes to act as enhanced pressurized red blood cells so you can hold your breath for hours... The idea is that basically anything is possible with control over matter, and that nothing would be the same... Anyway I did a school project on it a few years ago and was just wondering if anyone else was into it... Here are some links: www.foresight.org, http://www.foresight.org/NanoRev/FIFAQ.html www.nanodot.org http://www.nas.nasa.gov/NAS/Education/nano...h/nanotech.html http://www.nanozine.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxicfume Veteran Posted November 24, 2001 Veteran Share Posted November 24, 2001 I am quite interested in this topic :) ..but unfortunately i still don't have a broad idea of what it is actually...but it's abilities sounds great though....Waiting for it to actually happen(or should i keep on waiting forever :right: ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hulibecker Posted November 24, 2001 Share Posted November 24, 2001 sounds cool........bring it on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glowstick Posted November 24, 2001 Share Posted November 24, 2001 This will be a pretty big job. These nano-machines could get quite big tho, when targetted to perform complex jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheekymonkey Posted November 24, 2001 Share Posted November 24, 2001 Following Mother Nature's lead, Israeli scientists have built a DNA computer so tiny that a trillion of them could fit in a test tube and perform a billion operations per second with 99.8 percent accuracy. Instead of using figures and formulas to solve a problem, the microscopic computer's input, output and software are made up of DNA molecules--which store and process encoded information in living organisms. Scientists see such DNA computers as future competitors to their more conventional cousins because miniaturization is reaching its limits and DNA has the potential to be much faster than conventional computers. It is the first programmable autonomous computing machine in which the input, output, software and hardware are all made of biomolecules. Although too simple to have any immediate applications, it could form the basis of a DNA computer in the future that could potentially operate within human cells and act as a monitoring device to detect potentially disease-causing changes and synthesize drugs to fix them. Data is represented by pairs of molecules on a strand of DNA, and two naturally occurring enzymes act as the hardware to read, copy and manipulate the code. When it is all mixed together in the test tube, the software and hardware operate on the input molecule to create the output. The DNA computer also has a very low energy consumption, so if it is put inside the cell it would not require much energy to work. DNA computing is a very young branch of science that started less than a decade ago, when Leonard Adleman of the University of Southern California pioneered the field by using DNA in a test tube to solve a mathematical problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radixvir Posted November 25, 2001 Share Posted November 25, 2001 hey does anyone remember the episode of star trek tng where wesley feel asleep and the nanobots got out and took control of the ship? well it just showed how dumb wesley was hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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