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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:Nah Nah Nah by Bastard+of+Subhumani · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, it builds GOO. Grey goo, to be precise.

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    Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.
  2. Obviously thinking along the lines of... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "So these atom things... just stuff spinning around other stuff right? Okayee, we're in business!"

  3. Re:I say, awesome. by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, they seem to have trouble exploring the infinitely large, so they may have better luck with the infinitely small...

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  4. hmm by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do I have the feeling that before too much longer, 'nano' will be the next big buzzword? Buy the new 'NanoPod Video Player!'

    Okay, sorry, I have nothing interesting to say about this article. Just remembering the good ol' days when every new exciting tech began with an E.

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    "Derp de derp."
    1. Re:hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Buy the new 'NanoPod Video Player!'

      As if mp3 players weren't easy enough to lose already, you want to make them smaller?! :)

      On the other hand, if you make them that small, just implant them into the ear then you could call it an ePod and we can go full circle!

  5. "Grey goo" will increase space travel demand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like an ingenious marketing ploy to me.

    Once nanobots take over this planet in the form of Grey Goo... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo Organic life's only hope for survival become space travel.

  6. Wow by unts · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nanotechnology is going to be huge!

  7. End result by AtariAmarok · · Score: 2, Funny

    "As the result of a miscalculation involving metric vs imperial units, the entire NASA shuttle fleet was swallowed by a small dog"

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    Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
  8. nanotech reference from 1919 by johnrpenner · · Score: 2, Funny


    >> spoken in 1919:

    At the present time the Earth is going through its Fourth Round, and
    this is the mineral. During this time it is the task of mankind to work
    upon the mineral kingdom... We are now in the midst of this activity,
    and in the course of the next epochs, THE EARTH WILL HAVE TO BECOME
    COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED, SO THAT EVENTUALLY THERE WILL BE
    NO SINGLE ATOM ON THE EARTH THAT HAS NOT BEEN WORKED ON BY MAN.
    In earlier times these atoms became more and more solidified; now however
    they are becoming increasingly separated. Radio-activity did not exist in
    earlier times and could not therefore be discovered. It has only existed
    for a few thousand years, because now the atoms split up more and more.

    (Foundations of Esotericism, Oct.5-1905, Rudolf Steiner Press, pp.66-67)