http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/ Center for Responsible Nanotechnology Tue, 18 May 2010 22:16:20 GMT Chris Phoenix http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/98 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/98 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. Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:41:59 GMT Erin Casson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/97 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/97 The first nanofactories and industrial assembler systems will likely be special purpose units that require special inputs of chemical fuel and prefahricated Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:09:41 GMT tom@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/96 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/96 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 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:52:42 GMT Erin Casson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/95 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/95 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 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:36:49 GMT Erin Casson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/94 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/94 I'm an advocate for covering cities with domes made from tough, light, transparent materials, in order to have year-round comfortable controlled temperatures Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:03:05 GMT Erin Casson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/93 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/93 The INCA system, Inter-Nodal-Connector-Architecture, essentially allows the fabrication of spherical, dome shaped and other geometric structures, from the Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:37:16 GMT Chris Phoenix http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/92 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/92 Depends what you want to assemble. For large-scale manufactured engineered products, I suspect that "dry" materials will be easier to build high-performance Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:49:32 GMT Erin Casson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/91 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/91 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 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:32:17 GMT Erin Casson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/90 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/90 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 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:39:01 GMT Chris Phoenix http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/89 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/89 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 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:14:41 GMT Erin Casson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/88 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/88 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 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:58:50 GMT Erin Casson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/87 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/87 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 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:41:09 GMT Chris Phoenix http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/86 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/86 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," Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:01:07 GMT Erin Casson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/85 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/85 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 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:56:51 GMT Erin Casson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/84 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CRNtalk/message/84 Very interesting points, Chris, thank you. Regarding surfaces and cleaning/corrosion resistance, I wonder if this would work for early nanotech: We already