From: O'Regan, Emlyn (Emlyn.ORegan@actew.com.au)
Date: Tue May 25 1999 - 22:52:03 MDT
Anders said:
Exactly; my fault for not thinking properly <adjusted>. Henrik
Öhrström pointed out that mesoscale nanomachines might actually pose a
hazard similar to silicosis or asbestosis by being fairly large
structures the macrophages in the lung cannot handle. I seem to recall
that the ufog designs involved inert foglets with silicon(?) shells;
maybe they should be made vulnerable to the chemicals released by
lymphocytes or other cells. Maybe some connectors made of protein, for
example.
By the time ufog is a reality, wouldn't most people be chock full of
tiny little (nano) robots which collected debris in the lungs / poisons
in food / any other unruly stuff, and got rid of it? Why not, instead of
trying to make ufog safe to digest, design a nano-robot scavenger that
catches debris and takes it out of harm's way?
Emlyn
I swallowed a spider to catch the fly
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