Re: LIST: the Gooies

Gina Miller (echoz@hotmail.com)
Mon, 19 Apr 1999 23:41:45 PDT

Hey gooies, you guy's should read K. Eric Drexler's book Nanosystems. It well tell you all sorts of technical stuff about diamond and carbon, and even a little goo!
Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
http://www.nanoindustries.com

>From: Randall Randall <wolfkin@freedomspace.net>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: Re: LIST: the Gooies
>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 01:43:32 -0400
>
>I've lately thought that on Mon, 19 Apr 1999,
phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu wrote:
>
>>Randall Randall <wolfkin@freedomspace.net> wrote:
>>
>>> It will very likely be made out of diamond, or similar
materials. I am
>>> unaware that any natural lifeform is able to use diamond as raw
material,
>>
>>Try fire. Oh, wait, not a lifeform. The goo must be safe.
>>
>>And diamond and corundum take a fair bit of energy to chemically
manipulate.
>>What's powering this goo?
>
>Wouldn't it *release* energy in producing diamond from less compact
forms
>of carbon?
>
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>Wolfkin.
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