3 years ago, age 75
10 years ago, age 68
1 million, 2 thousand years ago, much younger
Posted on 01/04/2021 6:05:47 PM PST by ransomnote
Researchers have developed nanobots that can be injected using an ordinary hypodermic syringe, according to a new release. The nanobots are microscopic functioning robots with the ability to walk and withstand harsh environments. Each robot has a 70-micron length, which is about the width of a thin human hair, and a million can be produced from a single 4-inch silicon composite wafer.
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These micro-robots feature four legs composed from graphene or platinum and titanium; they’re described by Miskin as “super strong,” enabling the nanobots to carry a body weighing about 8,000 times more than each leg. As well, each leg measures only 100 atoms thick, and they can carry bodies 1,000 times thicker, according to the researchers.
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At this point in the development process, the nanobots are solar-powered, but that energy source limits how deep the robots could be injected into tissue. In the future, microscopic robots like the ones developed by Miskin and his colleagues may be used to deliver drugs directly to injuries or tumors, but the solar energy requirement would be a major limitation.
In that picture, by today’s standards, she is considered modestly dressed.
That movie was my first thought, too. Raquel Welch and some guys starred.
The United States and the Soviet Union have both developed technology that can miniaturize matter by shrinking individual atoms, but only for one hour. (The novel stated that the duration of miniaturization is inversely proportional to its degree. A 50% reduction, say, could be maintained for many days, but a reduction to microbial size could last for only an hour.)
Scientist Dr. Jan Benes (Jean Del Val), working behind the Iron Curtain, has figured out how to make the process work indefinitely. With the help of American intelligence agents, including agent Charles Grant (Boyd), he escapes to the West, but an attempted assassination leaves him comatose with a blood clot in his brain that no surgery can remove from the outside.
To save his life, agent Grant, pilot Captain Bill Owens (Redfield), Dr. Michaels (Pleasence), surgeon Dr. Peter Duval (Kennedy), and his assistant Cora Peterson (Raquel Welch) are placed aboard a Navy submarine (originally designed to study the deep-sea spawning habits of fish) at the Combined Miniature Deterrent Forces facilities.
The submarine, named Proteus, is then miniaturized to “about the size of a microbe”, and injected into Benes. The team has 60 minutes to get to and remove the clot; after this, Proteus and its crew will begin to revert to their normal size, become vulnerable to Benes’s immune system, and (in the words of Asimov’s novelization) “kill Benes regardless of the success of the surgery.”
10 years ago, age 68
1 million, 2 thousand years ago, much younger
Wake me when they’ve figured out how to shrink Raquel Welch small enough to fit inside one of them.
She is one hot babe regardless if the era.
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