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NASA Supporting Nanotech Development

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the blinded-me-with-science dept.

It doesn't come easy writes "In laboratories around the country, NASA is supporting the burgeoning science of nanotechnology. The basic idea is to learn to deal with matter at the atomic scale -- to be able to control individual atoms and molecules well enough to design molecule-size machines, advanced electronics and "smart" materials."

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  1. Re:Should be more like this by sillybilly · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yeah, well shit happens. I think NASA is the perfect system to operate the Shuttle, instead of handing it over to some private industry dingbats. Maybe NASA should operate the nuke plants too, instead of handing them over to dumbass operators who fall asleep at the control terminals at 3 mile island, for they were hired into that position because they were profitable - i.e. cheap. Yeah, let's privatize everything, even the police, military and yo momma too.

  2. Pathetic.. by HEbGb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is nothing more than an attempt by NASA to appear relevant. They're little more than a sink-hole for people's hard-earned money. Nano is the latest hype, designed only to keep them seeming at the forefront, so that congress can justify continuing to fund them.

    Disgusting.