Re: Nanotech Arms Race

From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Tue Jan 26 1999 - 09:07:51 MST


> 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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