Nanotechnology [increasingly OT]

> At 7:48 AM +0100 12/6/01, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:

Note that I said level (i.e., destroy) a city, not create... but if you want
to build a city using nanotech, the material is there to be used (assuming
you're on the surface of a planet or asteroid). And I should probably specify
that a man with utility fog could destroy a
city built with modern or near-future construction techniques; a city
built with nanotech would be a bit more difficult.

> And the proverbial "Speeding Bullet" would pack enough

Not if there was enough U-fog.  Say you have a sizeable volume of the
fog, maybe a 30-meter-radius sphere of it.  Assuming you stand in the
center of it at all times, that's thirty meters of material that can become
harder than steel instantaneously, surrounding you on all sides. I'd imagine
that would stop most speeding bullets, as long as those bullets weren't fitted
with countermeasures of some sort. And
a military-grade utility fog would probably be a lot larger, denser,
and more resistant to countermeasures than the average civilian variety.

Shig the Unmentionable schrieb:
> fog, maybe a 30-meter-radius sphere of it....

Probably pretty hard to breathe inside it at that moment...

> Mind you, this is purely speculation on my part. I

Exactly. At this level of human knowledge and this level of postulated
capabilities, a discussion on the powers of magic wands is equally realistic
;-)

> My point throughout this thread is that nanotechnology, as most of

My impression is that most of those "experts" are academics hunting for
attention and research money.

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