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That outlet leads to a nanofactory, which will turn anything into a projectile.
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Includes info about titanium nanotubes, ethical research, nanotubes wrapped in DNA and a look at that most popular of current SF tropes, the nanofactory.
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A concept familiar to science fiction readers and distantly related to the ‘grey goo’ meme is that of the nanofactory.
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Once everyone has a nanofactory that is powered by the sun and fed with mere dirt any "new resource" will cost nothing whatsoever but dirt and sunlight - which is free to all.
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Includes info about titanium nanotubes, ethical research, nanotubes wrapped in DNA and a look at that most popular of current SF tropes, the nanofactory.
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With a nonnano fab lab, a consumer would have many of the benefits of a nanofactory without exotic dangers like homemade plagues or gray goo.
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The nanofactory is imagined as an appliance...that manufactures whatever is desired from individual molecules up.
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"Self-replicating nanoassemblers" are not the basic component of a nanofactory as envisioned by CRN.
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With a nonnano fab lab, a consumer would have many of the benefits of a nanofactory without exotic dangers like homemade plagues or gray goo.
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All designs will be externally controlled and supplied, capable of producing a duplicate nanofactory in about an hour—but only on command.
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