Re: Friday Fun


"Mike McWilliams" <michael.mcwilliamss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1142891927.314173@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, concerning the
article in Nature available "for a price" at
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7082/full/440283a.html

indeed it has nothing to do with energy or hydrogen, but manufacturing
things on the sub-ten nanometer scale might be a corollory of this.

Basically they came up with a method to make 2D shapes using DNA. The
article shows smiley faces and stars.


I imagine 3D shapes are in the works, and I think thats where it may get
interesting.

Oh, yeah, doubtless. I don't think that nanoscience/nanotechnology will
follow Eric Drexler's rather dark scenario, but it IS happening.

It's far more science than engineering as of yet, but we're moving in that
direction. The toxicity or other negative bioeffects have been only little
investigated, but people are working on that.

All biologicals are nanomechanisms, it appears, and it's a smaller and more
marginalized minority (particularly in the sciences) that regard nanotech as
a lot of moonshine.

Nothing about the referenced article on Eurekalert yet . . . I'll keep
watching.

Thanks!

d

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