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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Eugen wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:57:49PM +1000, Brett
Paatsch wrote:<BR>> Whilst looking through my hardcopy files for the Fahy
article on the<BR>> feasibility of brain repair I found these diagrams on a
"Merckle-Drexler<BR>> scenario" for a "Nanotechnology derived Cell Repair
Device". The<BR>> source (which does contain the Fahy article, is an Alcor
publication<BR>> from 1993).<BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> <BR>>
Here's the device. <A
href="http://www.entrepitec.com.au/page2A.html">http://www.entrepitec.com.au/page2A.html</A><BR>>
<BR>> Here's the device shown against a background with red blood<BR>>
cells. <A
href="http://www.entrepitec.com.au/page3A.html">http://www.entrepitec.com.au/page3A.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> More or less accurate scale. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> Compare with <A
href="http://moleculardevices.org/howbig.htm">http://moleculardevices.org/howbig.htm</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yep, I do like the tech used in
illustrating the relationships here.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I remember you posting this before but also with
some extras </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>that you'd </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>added
yourself. I think they showed gears or pumps</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>from Nanosystems. </FONT><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm not sure
what your point is trashing a single picture, done<BR>> by an artist (these
usually don't have scientific training).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My point is that the schematic is obviously
wrong in terms </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>of </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>scale </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>because it
can't possibly be the same device at both the</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>nano and </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>micron
scale. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't know if an artist produced the diagrams.
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>They look to me</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>like the </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>sort of
hand drawn schematic that an engineer type </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>might </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>quickly
sketch out. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>The only </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>names </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>associated are those</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of Merkle </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>and
Drexler. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A lot of people would not have good intuitive
understandings</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>the relative
scales of biological structures such as red blood</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>cells and </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>synapses
because these things exist at scales that</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>are </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>way below their
normal </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>sensory radar. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brett Paatsch</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>