> It's worrying that the 'sci fi' doomsday scenarios > of Nano Technology dangers seems to be true. Anyone > remember the whole 'Gray Death' thing from Deus Ex? > Where a Nano 'Virus' spread throughout the human > population and decimated it? > Scary stuff. > 0_0
Tiff and I have a copy of the Elegant Universe here and there's a guy interviewed in the show who says that string theory is philosophy, rather than science because there's no way for us to verify what's going on at that scale. I don't disagree, since one of the founding principals of science is that it must be falsifiable, so unless we're able to produce some method of testing the theory for falseness then it won't really be science. The correlation here is to their talk of current HAZMAT process being insufficient. I have to wonder given the scale of nano-tech if it would even be possible for us to contain a malicious nano-device. We have a hard enough time with viruses already, it seems that if someone were able to produce a malicious device that replicated, the only way to stop it would be to build a competitive nano-device. Being of such scale it would be impossible to know the progress of the competitive device either. The prospect doesn't inspire me with a whole lot of confidence. As to the sick germans, I think they should take this as a life lesson to be a bit less anal-retentive about their cleaning (or lazy, one of the two). My other fear is that all glass manufacturers will begin to treat their products with this stuff indiscriminately and make it impossible for any of us to get untreated glass. My suspicion is that it wouldn't be dangerous. The device is obviously liquid or suspended in a liquid. I'm guessing it bonds to whatever surface it's applied to and these folks accidentally got some on their hands and in their mouths and it's repelling water from the walls of cells in the lining of their esophagus, stomach or intestines. If the glass is pre-treated, I would think that the solution would have bonded to the glass and be safe to touch, but I like having options, including options that require more effort on my part, such as toilets that I can flush. I don't like other people taking away my ability to do things for myself, in this case washing windows apparently. s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:203561 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
