X-Message-Number: 10590 From: Olaf Henny <> Subject: Message #10580 From Charles Platt Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 06:46:14 -0700 Re: Message #10580 From Charles Platt Hi Charles: >Enzymes cannot be used to fix freezing damage, so far as I am aware. Yet >Sorry, but I believe your entire argument is a wild piece of theorizing. >I have written my own software to create cellular automata (indeed I used to >sell it via mail order). There is an immense gap between this very limited >numerically controlled behavior, and a huge system that computes cleverly >enough to repair damage afflicting billions of cells. > >Still, as I say, if your system is workable, it can be developed and >tested right now, using moderate computing power. I look forward to the >proof of concept. >--CP Ralph Merkle has estimated, that with MNT we can stick about 1 MB of computing power include. power sources into 1 cubic micron. And if there turns out to be some substance to the following claims, we may already part way there toward Klaus' nanobot army. - The announcement June 1997 by those Aussi researchers, who had developed a "sniffer, which would be able to detect the chemical change caused by a sugar cube in Sydney Bay. The central part of this device is a switch, which is 1.5 NM long. That means, that you can line up 200 of them within the length of your average bacterium. - More recently, there was an announcement in the press, that researchers had gene-manipulated a certain flu virus, so it will seek out and destroy certain cancer cells. Yes, it has grown very quite around the Aussi sniffer, and I have no idea, which key words to use in a medline query to verify the gene-manipulated flu virus story, but maybe some body else has a better line on these stories. Best, Olaf ___________________________________ Tolerance is wisdom's finest fruit ___________________________________ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10590