<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 24, 2010, at 6:26 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:</div><br><div><blockquote type="cite">Spike, we *did* discuss strange matter life way back, including</blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>possibility of life near Planck scale.<br>It seems our collective list memory has got a case of Alzheimer's...<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I wrote this to the list on January 8 1996: <br><div><br></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><div style="display: inline !important; ">I remember hearing speculation about femtomachines that operated at a scale </div></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><div style="display: inline !important; ">of 10^-15m . The idea was to build things with strangelet quark structures. </div></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><div style="display: inline !important; ">Unfortunately I don't see how this could work, objects would not be rigid, </div></span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><div style="display: inline !important; ">and you can't build machines with a liquid. There is little more I can say on </div></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><div>that subject because unlike nanotechnology, building things on this scale <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><div style="display: inline !important; ">would require a scientific breakthrough and they are inherently unpredictable.</div></span></i></div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark </div><div><br></div></span></i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>