[PeaceBeWithYou]

Nanotech Bump

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Another advantage to using diatoms, Rorrer said, is that when the algae divide, they make a perfect copy of themselves, meaning "we can make a gazillion of these, and they are all the same."

Whose to say that they will not become self aware and act together as one. I would compare them to an ant colony, all striving as one entity.

I watched a show on the Discovery channel about just such a possibility. If nano technology is perfected it could raise a building, and by the same standard, deconstruct said building.

I don't think we're ready to handle such a thing.

[BurbankKarl]

When will the solar paint be available?

[Graymatter]

At the nanoscale, these elements follow the laws of quantum mechanics instead of Newtonian physics

Most bricklayers would call that a problem. :)

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Nanotech Gadgets to Be Built by Algae?

Makes sense, in a way. Probably easier to do than pushing atoms together with atomic force microscopes. Gives us another tool to manipulate stuff down at that level.