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<DIV><SPAN class=000443500-09012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>First,
bradbury, what are you talking about?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=000443500-09012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Second, alex, out of curiousity, what were</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=000443500-09012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>you
working on that distracted you from the STM.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=000443500-09012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Incidentally, you wouldn't happen to be out in</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=000443500-09012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Cali,
would you?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=000443500-09012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>omard-out</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=000443500-09012004></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>ABlainey@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 17, 2003 6:44
PM<BR><B>To:</B> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[extropy-chat] Re: garage nanotech<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT
face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>In a message dated 18/11/2003 00:29:48 GMT
Daylight Time, bradbury@blarg.net writes:<BR><BR><BR>
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TYPE="CITE">It may be useful for Dan to point out to his daughter that if
someone<BR>does<BR>pull off tool tip replacement and alternative assembly
chemistries for<BR>STMs<BR>that they are probably on the short list for a
Nobel Prize (and probably<BR><BR>would have a very *very* large set of
royalty income streams from the<BR>patents.)<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>What
is the problem with the tool tip replacement? Is it just the problem of the
tip wearing down and having to be constantly replaced and shaped? or is the
problem more complex?<BR>I toyed with the idea of a home-brew STM not that
long ago. I built a piezo scanning head in a few hours and then became
distracted by a more interesting project. I have thought about continuing the
STM construction and had a few ideas about tool and scanning head refinements.
<BR>Maybe this thread is just the incentive I need to get the project off the
shelf.<BR><BR>Alex<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>