At 04:45 AM 2/28/2011, Bob Hinden wrote: >Yoav, > >> Yes, but I think the nanobots are supposed to devour the entire earth, so >> it's volume that counts. The volume is about 1x10^21 m^3. So 40% is 4 x >> 10^20 m^3. > >But they start from the outside and eat down. This causes the surface area to >decrease and less nonobots are required. Or to put it another way, the don't >have to replace the earth with nonbots :-)
Umm... are you ignoring conservation of mass? Or are you assuming perfect conversion to energy? If the latter, I would expect the nanobots to melt - actually vaporize or turn into plasma. If the former, I'd expect replacing the earth with nanobots. Or at least something with some mass and volume. >> >> 3.4 x 10^38 nanobots comes to 8.5 x 10^17 nanobots per m^3, or about 1.17 >> microns^3 per nanobot. >> >> Sounds about right. > >This must have been one of the design goals :-) > >Bob > >_______________________________________________ >Ietf mailing list >[email protected] >https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
