So is the future of peace…
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I predict the first applications of this technology will be to destroy fat cells, wrinkles, and low-T!
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Kimmo
September 1, 2017, 3:10am
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Any radio antenna is going to be several orders of magnitude larger than these things. Communicating with jiggers this small is quite the technical challenge.
Anyone read the full article? Steep paywall. Looking for conclusion language.
Would really like to know what the fate (programmed or otherwise) is for the nanomachines once their targets have been destroyed. Programmed short lifespan? Shepherd’s whistle herds them all back together for pickup? Stay in the human body forever on duty, looking for bad guys?
Unintended consequences and creating new problems to solve old ones can be… destructive, irreversible and sometimes fatal:
The cane toad in Australia is regarded as an exemplary case of a "feral species"—others being rabbits, foxes, cats and dogs. Australia's relative isolation prior to European colonisation and the industrial revolution—both of which dramatically increased traffic and importation of novel species—allowed development of a complex, interdepending system of ecology, but one which provided no natural predators for many of the species subsequently introduced. The recent, sudden inundation of foreign spec...
Thalidomide, sold under the brand name Immunoprin, among others, is an immunomodulatory drug and the prototype of the thalidomide class of drugs. Today, thalidomide is used mainly as a treatment of certain cancers (multiple myeloma) and of a complication of leprosy. Thalidomide was first marketed in 1957 in West Germany under the trade-name Contergan. The German drug company Chemie Grünenthal developed and sold the drug. Primarily prescribed as a sedative or hypnotic, thalidomide also claimed to ...
Diethylstilbestrol (DES), also known formerly (and inappropriately) as stilboestrol, is a synthetic nonsteroidal estrogen of the stilbestrol group which was first synthesized in 1938. It is also classified as an endocrine disruptor. Human exposure to DES occurred through diverse sources, such as dietary ingestion from supplemented cattle feed and medical treatment for certain conditions, including breast and prostate cancers. From about 1940 to 1971, DES was given to pregnant women in the mist In...
American support for Ba'athist Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War, in which it fought against post-revolutionary Iran, included several billion dollars' worth of economic aid, the sale of dual-use technology, non-U.S. origin weaponry, military intelligence, and special operations training. However, the U.S. did not directly supply arms to Iraq. Of particular interest for contemporary Iran–United States relations are the repeated accusations that the U.S. government actively encouraged Iraqi l U.S. gov...
and so on…
ETA: how do I get that fourth link to wikipedia to display properly? reformatted several times but not the results I am looking for
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Nah - you just go on vacay to Hawaii!
pesco
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