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From: mdeale@vega.acs.calpoly.edu (Myron Deale)
Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
Subject: NHRA
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Date: 6 Jan 90 03:00:49 GMT
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Hello,
   I saw on tv a while ago that the National Hot Rod Association has
banned electronic (clutch) timers. No electrical based computation.
No on-board batteries. They use air pressure to work the timers.
I didn't bother understanding how those work since I was busy
with the following.

   Do you think Drexler could construct a timer from rods (or such)
powered from chemical synthesis/reactions (proteins or gas) ?  talk
about hot rods :)

   I don't want to start anything, but you'd have to be careful
of dragu when designing such a timer. "Dragu," the NHRA version
of graygoo.

-Myron
// mdeale@cosmos.acs.calpoly.edu

[You mean, for the Streptococcus Open?  
 Interestingly enough, Eric is looking at timer-like devices at
 the rod-logic level because of a minor "bug" I pointed out in
 the assembler design.
 --JoSH]