Re: Nanotech Arms Race

Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:07:51 -0800 

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> spike jones wrote:  thought experiment: imagine scaling
> a fusion weapon all the way down to two atoms of plutonium 238.... if one
> decays, the other one will most probably not be impressed. > nanotech will not have nuclear as an option for power. spike

arrrrg! i meant fission! not fusion. i do know the difference. {8-[ damn. that post will be on the internet for all eternity. there is no way that i know of to retroactively erase a post on the extropians archive.

the thought was incorrect too: there may be other more radioactive isotopes more suitable for tiny reactors than plutonium. i didnt think it thru carefully enough. i guess thats what the concept of nanotech does to one: opens ones mind a bit. {8-]

but now all my distant descendants will smirk with derision whenever they read the original post. {8-[ well, ill fix them! i wont *have* any distant descendants! ha! take that, all you unborn disrepectful distant descendants! {8^D spike 

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spike jones wrote:  thought experiment: imagine scaling
a fusion weapon all the way down to two atoms of plutonium 238.... if one decays, the other one will most probably not be impressed.
nanotech will not have nuclear as an option for power.  spike
arrrrg!  i meant fission!  not fusion.  i do know the difference.  {8-[
damn.   that post will be on the internet for all eternity.  there is no way
that i know of to retroactively erase a post on the extropians archive.

the thought was incorrect too: there may be other more radioactive
isotopes more suitable for tiny reactors than plutonium.  i didnt think
it thru carefully enough.  i guess thats what the concept of nanotech
does to one: opens ones mind a bit.  {8-]

but now all my distant descendants will smirk with derision whenever
they read the original post.  {8-[  well, ill fix them!  i wont *have* any
distant descendants!  ha!  take that, all you unborn disrepectful distant
descendants!    {8^D  spike
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