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Subject: Nanofactory animation Fri Dec 31, 2010 9:07 pm
Possible? In our lifetime? Who before 1884 would have thought television was possible?
SteveL Admin
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Subject: Making Stuff: Making Stuff Smaller (Nova) Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:03 pm
If you missed last night's episode of Nova ("Making Stuff: Making Stuff Smaller", which is the 2nd of 4 parts), I encourage you to catch the next airing:
WNED Thu 1/27 11:30 PM-12:30 AM (tonight)
If you get KCTSDT or KCTS (they are 532 and 164 on Rogers where I am), it's on today at 3 PM.
The show is outstanding; I highly recommend it; it may be the best science program I've ever seen; I was glued to the set. It's for a general audience and does a fine job of explaining scientific concepts in commonsense terms and with top-notch graphics. But the material covered is simply astonishing. The future looks grand! I can hardly wait.
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Subject: Re: Nanofactory animation Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:11 pm
I watched an episode on aging last night, they are getting damn close to replacement organs that won't be rejected, cool.. I want a second brain wired to co-process and a new thyroid.
SteveL Admin
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Subject: Re: Nanofactory animation Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:30 pm
kubera wrote:
I watched an episode on aging last night, they are getting damn close to replacement organs that won't be rejected, cool.. I want a second brain wired to co-process and a new thyroid.
Yes, that sounds like the same program. If only we can live long enough to take advantage of this stuff.
Also, the show talked about graphene, a substance discovered/created only 6 years ago. They showed how you can create your own graphene sheet that is only 1 atom thick (!) using graphite and Scotch® tape. You can see the graphene on the tape as a dark area. The advantage of graphene is that it can transmit electricty at a speed close to c, and is cheap. Computing power is still increasing (Moore's law was also discussed); other researchers (Intel? I forget) are stacking transistors on the z-axis via nano wires; previously, the number of transistors in a given space was limited by the distance between them due to the danger of short-circuiting. Imagine all the world's literary knowledge contained on an object you can hold in your hand.
Jonathan
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Subject: Re: Nanofactory animation Sat Jan 29, 2011 10:41 pm
Stuff like this truly boggles my mind. I remember seeing a portable I GB drive (not a flash drive, but a rotating disk style) that was about the size of your thumb, and I thought that was amazing. Now we can get 16GB on something smaller than that, and with no moving parts.