Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: al@questar.questar.mn.org (Al Viall) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: Nanotechnology reference Keywords: nanotechnology "Evolution" STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION Message-ID: Date: 6 Nov 89 22:48:54 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Questar Data Systems, Inc., St. Paul, MN Lines: 25 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , peb@tma1.eng.sun.com (Paul Baclaski) writes: > [ Text Deleted ] > it looked like a color paint program with some pixel globs moving > around leaving trails behind them. It got a little hokey when Wesley > used tweasers to pick up the nanites! It also looked like he was > using a small optical microscope to look at them. I supposed we could > assume that the nanites were much bigger than the ones Drexler envisions. > Wesley did NOT pick up the nannites using the tweasers. What he picked up was a sample of computer chips from one container and dropped it into the container containing the nannites which he had captured. The small container was actually a sort of mousetrap for nannites, which the process of how it works escapes me, but I would guess a little bait and some sort of field to prevent escape once inside. The reason for the computer chip was to show the reaction between the nannites with the chip which was, as they put it, "candy to them". - Al - -- | INTERNET: al@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG | "What we need, is someone like | | UUCP: ..!amdahl!tcnet!questar!al | Gorby in charge of our National | | FIDONET: 1/242:1,2 (Al Viall) | Space Policy. At least THEY can | | "WHAT! You want ME to eat THAT? No Way!" | do it. And with bread lines, yet"|