X-Message-Number: 21991 Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 10:43:01 -0700 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Star Trek-esque hand held scanners now. http://www.nature.com/nsu/020715/020715-1.html Hand-held X-ray gun Carbon nanotubes provide portable, low-power X-ray source. 16 July 2002 PHILIP BALL Carbon nanotubes are a few millionths of a millimetre across SPL Cheap, portable X-ray sources could soon replace the cumbersome, fragile devices currently used for biomedical imaging. US scientists have created a hand-held prototype in which X-rays are produced by beams of electrons emitted from tiny filaments of pure carbon.[cont.] And Roddenberry thought it would be the 24th century before we'd have such things. James -- Cryonics Institute of Michigan Member! The Immortalist Society Member! The Society for Venturism Member! MY WEBSITE: http://www.geocities.com/~davidpascal/swayze/ Signature Memetic Virus--The worst enemy of those who now or will need medical care is the politician and proselytizing religious fanatic who proscribes what doctors are allowed to prescribe and research, with the consent of their patients. Those who understand this are strongly encouraged to modify this to fit their personality, and add this to their signature file, and organize to recover our freedom from Big Brother. For those who wait until they are sick, it will be too late. Those who suffer from diseases which might have been cured by fetal tissue research or schedule 1 drugs banned by Big Brother, have the right to hold accountable those who sat on their hands or worse, deferred their responsibility for personal and humanity's survival to useless gods and pontificating religious quacks, while they remained ill and dying. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21991