<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Wed, May 17, 2017 William Flynn Wallace </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"> <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Interesting if absurd idea: can we build something organic that can receive radio signals?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Well, there are electrically c</div>onductive polymer<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">s you could use as a antenna, and for the detector use a crystal of </div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">lead sulfide </font><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">as they did in the old crystal sets, I know that's not a organic compound but I imagine organic process could make it from lead and sulfur. </font></div></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><font size="4">Speaking of absurd ideas, I always wondered if biology was up to the task of making diamonds; Evolution never ha<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">d</div> a need to produce such a thing so it <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">never did</div>, but with genetic engineering..... Imagine a tree that had big diamonds at the center of its peaches instead of just a pit. </font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font size="4">No natural<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>enzyme<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>can handle carbon atoms delicately enough to arrange them in a lattice, but could a man made one? It would be very hard for a human to design such a molecule, but that's just the sort of thing a quantum computer would be good at.</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark</div><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">.</font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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