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From: Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com><br>
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those 'perfect' cross-sections of the human body.
- Bryan
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Ok, a quick rough and ready description of what I can imagine.<br>
I envisage the subject to be in a frozen, vitrified state and ideally also further set in a solid block of some kind of medium (*).<br>
The film demolition man probably gives the closest visual example, however I see the subject in the typical laid out (death) pose <br>
and the block being a rectangular type, not circular.The STM could then be CNC controlled to pick up one atom at a time, presumably<br>
identifying each type by charge or size? I'm not sure if we are quite at this level yet, but it is surely within short term reach. <br>
The atoms are then encoded to the data upload. The atom could either be dropped giving us a destroy the original scenario,<br>
or preferably could be attached to a new substrate so as to reconstruct the original.The machine continues following a row and<br>
column path (**) until the entire single atom plane has been removed, so down to the next layer.You can imagine the time this would <br>
take, so multiple heads would be preferable. In the tens or hundreds of thousands .I would imagine we could give it a try with a very<br>
small life form, or sub life like a virus to test the concept? If the reconstruction method were used, and a hardy virus that could <br>
survive the low temp, we should theoretically be able to revive it on thawing?Any idea how many atoms in a virus sized block? LOL<br>
Alex<br>
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(*) this solid medium block is to avoid problems with extremities so they are secured in position.<br>
(**) As atom size and there position would not be uniform, the machine could use a track along to next atom method rather than an exact grid.So rows/columns would be roughly 1 angstrom, but the exact position of atoms found would be encoded and replicated in the reconstruction.<br>
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