[ExI] Coursera Nanotechnology has begun

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:01 PM, John Grigg <possiblepaths2050 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I suspect there are at least several (if not far more) extremely well
> funded top secret/above top secret Drexlerian-style nanotech research
> projects going on for the U.S. military, which we are "in the black" about.
>

I doubt it.  Such research would be far more valuable to the US - even to
just the US military - if done in the open (due to the amount of capital
needed to fully exploit this technology - e.g., the intelligence community
as a whole can never manufacture chips nearly as cheaply as Intel), and
they know it.

Notice that the specific details of the US Navy's nuclear program are
merely Secret, and then only mainly for how to operate (and thus, how to
sabotage) their particular reactors.  The basic theory and most principles
of design are unclassified.  It's a safe bet that the Navy has been taking
advantage of reactor design enhancements made in the open over the past few
decades.  Same principle here.
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