From: Forrest Bishop (forrestb@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 09:56:18 MDT
> SCIENCE AT THE EDGE PREMIERES!
> Episode 1 "Beating the Odds"
> TLC Monday July 1, 2002 at 10 p.m. ET/PT
> Repeats TLC Tuesday July 2, 2002 at 1:00 a.m. ET/PT
>
> Medical miracles. Life in space. Unlimited energy. SCIENCE AT THE EDGE,
> a new documentary series, takes viewers on a fantastic journey, guided
> by men and women pushing science beyond the boundaries to a future
> that's just being invented...
> Episode 1, "Beating the Odds," premieres on Monday July 1, 2002 at 10:00
> p.m. on TLC (check local listings). Discover medicine so advanced it's
> practiced only by doctors who dare the impossible: Oxygen-charged
> liquids used to "drown" dying patients in order to save their lives.
> Micro-robots that can swim through veins, killing invaders and keeping
> their hosts alive. Nerve transmitters that put quadriplegics on their
> feet again. And 3D replicators that perfectly reproduce any human body
> part.
A dozen or so of my digital animations may appear in the first episode, including:
Forrest Bishop's "Cell Rover" in bloodstream
Rob Freitas's "Respirocyte" in bloodstream
Rob Freitas's "Microbivore" in bloodstream
"Microbivore" depicts a version of Eric Drexler's rotary-joint manipulators. Rob Freitas and Ralph Merkle are interviewed.
Forrest
-- Forrest Bishop Chairman, Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering www.iase.cc
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