[93356] in Cypherpunks
Re: Nanotechnology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sat Jan 17 15:52:29 1998
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 21:22:59 +0100 (MET)
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
Reply-To: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
> 1 coulomb/second = 6.24 x 10^18 atoms/sec. Assuming an atomic spacing
> of roughly 10^-10 meters, at that rate it'd take you about 18.5 days to
> construct one side of the cube with a thickness of 1mm, or almost four
> months to build another cube. I'd guesstimate another 4 months to build
> the electronics for it. And then you'd need some way to assemble the
> pieces.
ok, but how do you build a 10-cm cube inside of a 10-cm cube? :)
