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

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