Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!ucla-cs!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!nanotech From: jerry@olivey.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre) Newsgroups: sci.nanotech Subject: Re: Nanotech thoughts Message-ID: Date: 5 Dec 89 01:23:48 GMT Sender: nanotech@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca Lines: 16 Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu In article peb@tma1.eng.sun.com (Paul Baclaski) writes: }self reproduce) and specialized knowledge. Perhaps the cost is on }the order of $10,000,000 minimum, when all things are considered, but }the black market usually pays more for anything, so the cost would }be higher. This is probably less than the cost of building a }nuclear weapons lab, but is still higher than most individuals }can afford. Just how much would certain people be willing to pay for an assembler that could transform sugar into heroin. For certain people $10,000,000 is no problem. This could add new meaning to the term "designer-drugs". [Oddly enough, $10 million is also the figure usually mentioned as the minimum needed to put together an A-bomb... --JoSH] Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com