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>>3805398

I was trying to post that and it told me "duplicate file entry." :)

This is one structure I can't force myself to believe in.

I mean, look at all that bond strain, and the fact that single atoms are acting as the gear's teeth. Yeah, right.

>>3544366

I was actually trying to mimic the last desktop that was posted. That's an outline of the molecule, now GROMACS is optimizing the geometry, to turn the outline into what it would actually look like (It's fucking magic). I'm thinking about simulating it for a few femtoseconds and making a .gif!

The program is http://nanoengineer-1.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Get_NanoEngineer-1

Pic related was simulated with it.

>>3529439

Exactly. Even if you have a billion parallel tips hovering over the diamond surface (Assuming that you can prevent the MEMS-scale manipulators from hitting each other, herpity derpity), what does that do? Well, it makes fucking diamond. Atom stacking is nice and all, but it can't make a protein, it can most certainly not make food.

Then there are the designs (http://nanoengineer-1.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=NanoEngineer-1_Gallery)) proposed by all these folks to use in nanomachinery -- Now, I have a great deal of respect for Dr. Drexler and Merkle and company, but come the fuck on. Diamond mechanosynthesis is one thing, but how on Earth are you going to assemble pic related? You're probably going to need specialized tips, and if you're going for proteins, well, you are not going to be using mechanosynthethic tools to make them. You're going to be using the wet, slippery biological stuff in conjunction with the rigid, dry diamondoids.

My view of how an assembler will be developed is that, well, mechanosynthesis is not magic. For example, how would you go about assembling a C60 molecule or an ethanol molecule? There are some cases where conventional, 'statistical' chemistry sure beats having machine-phase chemistry.

[cont]

So who else is fucking pumped that Eric Drexler is releasing a new book?

Guys?

;_;

http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/eric-drexler-will-have-new-book-in-2012.html

It's a Small, Small, Small, Small World (Complete overview of Nanotechnology): http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/MITtecRvwSmlWrld/article.html
Steps Towards Molecular Manufacturing: http://www.n-a-n-o.com/nano/cda-news/cda-news.html
Foresight Institute vs Scientific American: http://www.foresight.org/SciAmDebate/SciAmOverview.html
<span class="math">\it{Books:}[/spoiler] Engines of Creation; Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing and Computation; Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution; Nanomedicine
<span class="math">\it{Videos:}[/spoiler]
- Molecular Assembler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spr5PWiuRaY
- Molecular Sorting Pump: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfuvLT4bbbA; http://nanoengineer-1.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Sorting_Pump
Proof I'm actually all wrong: http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/158/1295996173518.png

>>3153667

Yes but particle accelerators produce debris, not controlled output. Picotechnology is fringe physics as it stands, and fusion -- Well, why would you bother fusing shit into gold, with the energy expense?

>ERIC: Yes, but what kind of manipulation? If we count manipulating small particles, then all technology is already picotechnology, because all matter is made of subatomic particles. Smashing particles together in accelerators produces debris, not machines or circuits.

Post music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XESreJjGx-I

<span class="math">\bf{:: Molecular Nanotechnology and Diamond Mechanosynthesis:}[/spoiler]
Nanofactory Collaboration: http://www.molecularassembler.com/
Eric Drexler vs Richard Smalley on Mechanosynthesis: http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-drexler-smalley-debate-on-molecular-assembly
Philip Moriarty (Researched using Si dimers as toggleable bits) discusses mechanosynthesis: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/philip-moriarty-discusses.html
Pathway to Diamond-Based Molecular Manufacturing: http://www.molecularassembler.com/Papers/PathDiamMolMfg.htm
Nanotech-Based Terraforming of Mars: http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/9601-news.html#RTFToC53
The Nano Age: http://thenanoage.com/
Institute of Atomic Scale Engineering: http://www.iase.cc/index.htm
Robert Freitas' Work on Nanomedicine:
- http://www.rfreitas.com/
- Respirocytes: http://www.thenanoage.com/respirocytes.htm
http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/Respirocytes.html
- Clottocytes: http://thenanoage.com/clottocytes.htm
- Microbivores: http://thenanoage.com/microbivores.htm
Nanotechnology and the Arrival of the Diamond Age: http://www.dse.nl/~hkl/e_nano1.htm
Nanoengineer-1: http://nanoengineer-1.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
It's a Small, Small, Small, Small World (Complete overview of Nanotechnology): http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/MITtecRvwSmlWrld/article.html

This thread needs more Diamond Age references and pictures taken from the NanoEngineer gallery.

Telomere reconstruction seems the most obivous.

>>2918314

You'd need to put them in Samefag's centrifuge afterwards. Now that I think about it the molecular disassembler sounds a bit overkill.

Plasma arc + centrifuge = Good enough.

Though you're still going to need a molecular assembler if you want to turn powderized metals and plastics into something useful without using a huge industrial oven, whatever those are called.