I see that some people have pointed it out, but Newtons laws cannot be applied to objects of this scale without making significant adjustments, if at all. As far as how to propell a nano-machine... Well, it would greatly depend on what the machine were to be used for. For computers "nano" simply reffers to the scale on which things are being implemented (usually the logic gates). Smaller gates are faster, and you can put more on a chip, meaning there is a potential for better devices. I don't know much about propelling machines, but I'm guessing that in most cases, it wouldn't really be nessecary. If the machines were to be used in constructing something else, or in the body, they could most likely simply "drift". As far as powering them, something like an electric current, or light would be reasonable. Keep in mind the scale that you're working with, and even using newtons laws you should get more reasonable numbers.
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And I wasn't happy about it... This was back in the days when you just couldn't play FPS games at home, because the old 28.8 was just a little too laggy...
My school had a strict no games policy, so we learned how to beat the protection software, installed games on half the machines, and were going to just go in and play sometime... However, we learned that this would probably get us suspended. So, Rather than reveal the fact that we knew how to bypass the weak security measures set up by the school, we decided to have some fun with it. Every joke program that we could get on those macs was put on... There was stuff walking / flying around the monitors in the room, we locked out the printers, and in general just made life difficult for everyone that worked there, and really didn't know what was going on.
Now, had we been allowed to play games, I doubt any of that would have been done... I would have been more than happy to settle for warcraft, or something like that. Just the fact that you allow students to use the computers for recrational purposes probably saves you a lot of work. If not, some of them will most likely experiment with alternate forms of recreation...
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I see that some people have pointed it out, but Newtons laws cannot be applied to objects of this scale without making significant adjustments, if at all.
As far as how to propell a nano-machine... Well, it would greatly depend on what the machine were to be used for. For computers "nano" simply reffers to the scale on which things are being implemented (usually the logic gates). Smaller gates are faster, and you can put more on a chip, meaning there is a potential for better devices.
I don't know much about propelling machines, but I'm guessing that in most cases, it wouldn't really be nessecary. If the machines were to be used in constructing something else, or in the body, they could most likely simply "drift". As far as powering them, something like an electric current, or light would be reasonable. Keep in mind the scale that you're working with, and even using newtons laws you should get more reasonable numbers.
And I wasn't happy about it... This was back in the days when you just couldn't play FPS games at home, because the old 28.8 was just a little too laggy... My school had a strict no games policy, so we learned how to beat the protection software, installed games on half the machines, and were going to just go in and play sometime... However, we learned that this would probably get us suspended. So, Rather than reveal the fact that we knew how to bypass the weak security measures set up by the school, we decided to have some fun with it. Every joke program that we could get on those macs was put on... There was stuff walking / flying around the monitors in the room, we locked out the printers, and in general just made life difficult for everyone that worked there, and really didn't know what was going on. Now, had we been allowed to play games, I doubt any of that would have been done... I would have been more than happy to settle for warcraft, or something like that. Just the fact that you allow students to use the computers for recrational purposes probably saves you a lot of work. If not, some of them will most likely experiment with alternate forms of recreation...