Nanocar Wins Top Science Award

Lucas123 writes "A researcher who built a car slightly larger than a strand of DNA won the Foresight Institute Feynman Prize for experimental nanotechnology. James Tour, a professor of chemistry at Rice Univ. built a car only 4 nanometers in width in order to demonstrate that nanovehicles could be controlled enough to deliver payloads to build larger objects, such as memory chips and, someday, even buildings, like a self-assembling machine. Tour and a team of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers constructed a car with chassis, working suspension, wheels and a motor. 'You shine light on it and the motor spins in one direction and pushes the car like a paddle wheel on the surface,' Tour said. The team also built a truck that can carry a payload."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Read Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age.

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And conducting psychological torture as well... for example, keeping her in darkness for a week straight, while whispering, "We're going to make a baby, a beautiful baby," and raping her over and over again, impregnating her. Then, aborting our child with a coat hanger.

Finally, I would tie her wrists to her ankles, behind her back, so that she resembles a circle. I would fuck her one last time, and pick her up by the handcuffs and toss her, alive, into a furnace.

*sigh*

Imagination is fun.