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Walking Molecule Now Carries Packages
Roland Piquepaille writes "Chemists from the University of California at Riverside designed two years ago a molecule which could move straight on a flat surface — a nano-walker if you wish. Now, they've found a way to force this walking molecule to carry packages. The nano-worker can now carry two CO2 molecules. And like yourself when you carry two heavy bags, this nano-worker is slower when it carries other molecules. The researchers think their discovery will lead to reliable ways of carrying molecules, an equivalent of the conveyor belts in today's factories."
Just let me know when they can carry me home from the bar- then it'll mean something to me.
They'll unionize & all your research will be useless and futile against their nano-unions.
Think of the organized crime opportunities! Yeah stuff in the warehouse does really just walk off.
Though if walkers get a collective consciousness it would self-organized crime.
"Cutbacks have forced us to introduce the Imperial Nanowalker"
They get up really, really early.
Teaching them to drive nano-trucks and get signatures on a clip-board.
Cwm, fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz
So what's the big deal? I can carry a lot more than two C02 molecules around and make turns and my parents are still kicking themselves for creating me, why should these scientists be proud of their inferior creation?
For the non-scientific among us, think Lemmings, only less suicidal.
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
It's carrying packages---must have been shopping = she
If it has a package = he
...can take millions of years to be there on time and weighs less then a very small molecule, let University of California at Riverside work for you.
"What did the first nano-walker water molecule say to the second nano-walker water molecule who'd just tripped while carrying his load of CO2?" "Up and ATOM Mister!". (sorry. been a long day)
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet
What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs
and makes a slinkity sound?
A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing!
Everyone knows it's Slinky.
It's Slinky, it's Slinky,
it's fun, it's a wonderful toy.
It's Slinky, it's Slinky, it's fun,
It's a wonderful toy.
It's fun for a girl or a boy.
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our nano size underlords. May we construct statues in their name. I see them know posters on every corner: Nano Brother is Watching You!
- Design lil nanowalkers
- Pave path directly to target with copper. Design another lil nanowalker that walks in front of the rest, clearing debris out of the way.
- Set the one carrying flammable stuff going, and wait a few thousand years for it to get to the destination. Have a few flaming nano-walkers to let go a few minutes after you let the first one go.
- Multiple by a few million for an explosion that people can actually see.
If this doesn't say "DoD grant" nothing does.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy