X-Message-Number: 14305
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 05:44:56 -0400
From: Paul Wakfer <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #14303 - Nano breakthrough reported
References: <>

> Message #14303
> From: "George Smith" <>
> Subject: Would Bell Labs lie?  Nano breakthrough reported.
> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 13:10:21 -0700
> 
> Researchers from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs and University of Oxford
> create first DNA motors
> 
> Computers/Internet Announcement
> Source: Bell Labs
> Published: WEDNESDAY AUGUST 09, 2000
> Posted on 08/10/2000 23:52:13 PDT by sourcery
> Researchers from Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs and University of Oxford
> create first DNA motors
> 
> http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a3993a29d0e8e.htm

While this is encouraging, it is not a *breakthrough*, but instead a
small incremental step. Indeed, it is almost insignificant in
relationship to the complex requirements of nanotechnology which are
necessary for the purposes of life-extension and cryonics (about which
requirements, as shown below, we have hardly begun to understand - while
still knowing that they will certainly be extremely complex).

Once again, the main argument against the notion that nanotechnology
will soon solve the problems of life-extension including cryonics is
that these problems are not yet near to solution by the entire world's
resources of *macro* computers, sensors, and other detection/analysis
machinery! Even worse, we still know so little about the machinery of
the body, and aging mechanisms in particular, that we don't even know
what specific problems need to be solved (ie. we are at that stage of
any complex endeavor where we "don't know enough to know what we don't
know").

And I do *not* mean that any of this should be taken as pessimism or any
reason to abandon hope and/or to stop working dilligently and tirelessly
for our life-extension purposes.

-- Paul --

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