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UK Establishes Fragmented Nanopolicy

Posted by Zonk on from the a-young-ladies-illlustrated-primer dept.

hlovy writes "The BBC has a piece on British Science Minister Lord Sainsbury's long-sought reaction to a yearlong Royal Society study on the environmental and societal implications of nanotechnology. I've written ad nauseam on the Royal Society report here, here and even for the Wall Street Journal here."

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  1. Follow the lead of Wall St. by bigtallmofo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Rather than actually doing anything with Nanotechnology, the UK should instead follow the lead of many Wall St companies and just put the prefix "Nano" in their name. Nano-Kingdom sounds pretty good to me.

    Once you do this, you can expect all kinds of amazing profits!

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    1. Re:Follow the lead of Wall St. by FirienFirien · · Score: 4, Funny

      But Nanokingdom makes it sound either like the country is tiny, or the king (queen) is tiny. It'd trump micronesia though.

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    2. Re:Follow the lead of Wall St. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      the old joke:

      nanotechnology will lead to the destruction of mankind in 15 years - but until then it's a great investment...

  2. I object! by caluml · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey - what's up?! You're making us sound like incompetent bumbling fools! :) We invented the backtick (`), don't you know?

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  3. Re:Just like government... by w.p.richardson · · Score: 2, Funny
    Scientific advancement does not wait for this sort of nonsense.

    If it can be done, it will - reports be damned!

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  4. Appropriate by ergo98 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you could almost say that their nanopolicy is in lots of tiny parts, scattered about, each individually working towards a common goal?

    Sounds appropriate.

  5. UK develops nanopolicy by flumps · · Score: 2, Funny

    .. but unfortunately no one could read it cause it was written on a pinhead.

    Prince Charles spent hours having the charter written into his scalp and was said to be "over the moon".

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  6. It worked for Robin Williams. by AtariAmarok · · Score: 2, Funny

    He made a mint putting "Nano" into his comedy routine. Shazbot!

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  7. I read it as "nanopoly"... by Dave_M_26 · · Score: 3, Funny
    and thought...

    I for one welcome our tiny nanolords.

    and then I hit myself for it, sorry.

    Dave