Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: gordon@idca.tds.philips.nl (Gordon Booman) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: Crash protection (was Re: Utility Fog) Message-ID: Date: 8 Sep 89 02:23:37 GMT Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands Lines: 22 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu I don't think we would bother with Utility Fog for Crash Protection. At least, not external Fog. If the problem is the brain sloshing up against the skull, why not solidify the brain and its surrounding fluid whenever great acceleration is detected? Inject nano-machines into the brain that just roll around until accelerated, at which point the reach out and grab someone. Seems a lot simpler than Utility Fog. (Hah! as if any of these schemes were easy!) I said "At least, not external Fog." The point being that internal Fog (general purpose nanomachines saturating the body) would be quite useful for medical and other reasons... -- Gordon Booman SSP/V3 Philips TDS Apeldoorn, The Netherlands +31 55 432785 domain: gordon@idca.tds.philips.nl uucp: ...!mcvax!philapd!gordon [Internal nanomachines are "older" as a concept than the Fog since they are discussed in EoC. I figured that the Fog would be easier to do, since there's more unused room in the air than most people's heads, and the body is sensitive to things like being flooded with strange synthetic molecules. --JoSH]