X-Message-Number: 21127 From: Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:20:14 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #21110 Nano --part1_1ed.1936bd9.2b7a8ace_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Thomas Donaldson For Mr. Kluytmans: > I am surprized that you haven't even looked up in any biochemistry > book the kind of bonds which tie enzymes or other living nanomachines > together. I recommend Lehninger, BIOCHEMISTRY. Your arguments, good > or bad, would have been stronger if you had done so. > May I add: The molecular biochemistry of the cell. I think it win by at least one pound:-) With both to read, you are out of cryonet for 6 months! Now my own recipe: How to make your technoreligion in one lesson: Takes a bright mind with advanced ideas, for example R.P. Feynman on nanomachines. Add the essential religious argument: Eternity. How nanomachines can be a promise of eternity? Simple: Takes the old De Beers slogan: Diamonds are eternal, with James Bond, everyone know that. Now you have eternity with diamond nanomachines. A true guru would add some free porn, but not everyone has the mind value of His Holyness Rael for example. I have maide the con (see this word in french slang) so there is the pro: There is a proposal for a nano assembler: Assume we have an electrical chekerboard in an elliptical corral. At one focus, the board could be used to move carbon atoms in a given patern. A quantum dot laser would then use its near field to excite some atoms. The wavefunction of that atoms set would be then copied by the corral at the other focus. Here, atoms would be trapped by the wave function in a given excited state. A nanomachine in the making would then be lowered along a tower so that it would touch the atoms array and take it as a new added carbon coat. The nanopart would then go up so that new atom could invade the corral focus. When completed after may be 100,000 to and fro displacements in .1s, the part would be released with a mRNAtag. A ribosome could assemble that particular "protein". I am unconvinced about the usefulness of that technology, but it seems I am the only with a solution to build such nanobugs. YB. --part1_1ed.1936bd9.2b7a8ace_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21127