/sci/ - Science & Math

>>1933853

WE SHOULD BUILD A SKYSCRAPER

MADE OUT OF THOUSANDS OF TONNES OF MECHANOSYNTHETIZED DIAMOND

AND FULLERES

BUCKMINSTERFULLERENE EVERYWHERE UP OF IN THIS BITCH

Earth. Its northern hemisphere completely covered in ice and snow. The dark side showed no city lights or anything. The southern hemisphere was just as dead, with brown patches as large as Africa replacing the once green continents. What those continents were was anyone’s guess. How had they changed so much in so little time? They were unrecognizable. Either humans had grown old of the old shapes and decided to change them or something else had.

I checked the radio. Since entering the Solar System it had caught no transmissions. Humanity was gone and it trailed dead silence across all frequencies.

All that was left was an impact crater the size of Australia.

oh wait you said no fake ones

I have a vision of the future.

In the next ten years, Nanotechnology will be a booming field. While it remained highly theoretical until the technology allowed basic applications in the 80's, now we finally have the technology to make the dream a reality. By 2020, advances will allow us to mass-market the products: Cancer-eating nanorobots, ultra-cheap water filters produced en masse and sent to third world countries, high-efficiency solar panels, nanofabrics that reduce cost, increase durability and heat isolation, nanotattos that allow you to have your watch or an entire computer on your screen, chemical catalysts, nano-OLED and nano electronic paper computer screens, carbon nanotubes for construction, integrated circuits with nanoscopic compounds.

Nanotech is one of the fastest growing areas of science, and in ten years, we'll have the technology to solve half of this world's problems. If we play our cards right, and I think we will (Because all the Baby Boomers and old, God-fearing Conservatives will have died). When people don't have to worry about their next meal, they can obtain a higher education, or try to just become happy, or think about say, moving to the stars.

Nanotechnology will allow us to create megastructures on a scale never imagined. Arcologies that can house billions of people, not ant colonies, but something more of a five-star hotel, self-sustained by Aeroponic hanging gardens, with it's own recycling system to destroy the need of pumping waste into the oceans. Huge Hydroponic farms can be built on the deserts. Nanotech will give us advances in Carbon Nanotube technology, enough to build a Space Elevator and large, ultra-light, scramjet-powered spaceplanes that change in shape as they move through different layers of the atmosphere. We will finally be able to move large amounts of cargo and people into space, and for the first time in years, once we achieve this, the Space Age will begin.

>Feel bad for scia
>Save his thread by dumping space pictures collection

Artificial stuff 4/4

2060 AD
91 After Tranquility

Genetic Engineering and biotech have continued growing and have produced the cure for many diseases and conditions. In the industrialized world, the wealthy can afford to regrow whole organs, while some keep clones to harvest organs from. However, some playing around with DNA found in amber from before the extinction of the dinosaurs has caused a million year-old virus to reappear, killing a bunch of birds that are related to dinos, which in turn damages the economy.

China has fragmented. Agriculture takes up a large portion of the land while efforts are made to introduce vertical Hydroponic farms, however automated mining is stripping away everything.

Nanotechnology continues to be a thing of megacorps and universities. It has produced supermaterials, cheap water filters, radiation-proof particles, helped medicine and collaborated with biotech, but the challenges faced in the creation of molecular assemblers that can build anything out of base materials and blueprints are still huge. Progress is still fast, but the main task is not the assembly: That has been solved. The main task is designing the factory: Trillions of wheels, tooltips, conveyor belts, someone has to design the complex recursing systems, if they are to allow any object to be made. A lot of assemblers are being built, robotic arms gluing together microscopic parts, each one made separately. After the first one is made, which will take years, it will make copies of itself and it will be sold to the public.

>>1564339
You were saying?

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth.
I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.
I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small"

Neil Armstrong

>You are now aware that if it weren't for the Japanese, America never would have landed on the Moon

B-E-A-FUCKING-UTIFUL

Fucking high res space photos NOW. Get all this fucking spam and troll threads off the front page.