/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3190506

An assembler is generally assumed, in serious contexts, to be a machine for printing machines and appliances and molecularly-assembled nanomaterials for construction. It's not meant to copy a person, then somehow set the molecules in motion.

Moreover, mechanosynthesis can't make proteins.

>then hell no... your identity dissolves WITH your original atoms.

... *sigh*

On average every two years all your cells have been replaced with new ones, and every decade, all your atoms, including those of "static" structures like the brain, have been replaced with new ones.

>>2924465

You implied there are no resources on Mars.

That's horseshit.

>>2894319

>For a tracheally mounted system you could have such a pump half a centimeter wide with no problem,

Well I don't know the precise size of the pump, but the worm drive it has on top has a height of 7.5 nanometers, so I'd guess 18 nanometers would be the height of the pump. That's slightly wider than a DNA molecule.

So size is no problem.

http://nanoengineer-1.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Worm_Drive

An array of these shouldn't be much of a situation, and if you have them layered, you could have layers to catch things like raw Carbon, or any pollutant. Or just anything larger than molecular Oxygen or Carbon Dioxide, because them tubes aren't very wide.

>Can we build that thing?

Assemblers, et cetera.