X-Message-Number: 15404
References: <>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:05:39 +0000
From: "Joseph Kehoe" <>
Subject: more  snippets

BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_1124000/1124312.stm

Careful on that couch! It could be a resting robot. Scientists are starting to 
make robots out of smart

building blocks that make them morph into different forms to suit the job they 
are doing.


from nanodot.org
http://www.cnn.com/2001/ASIANOW/south/01/14/india.stephenhawking.ap/index.html
BOMBAY, India (AP) -- Physicist Stephen Hawking predicted that people
would colonize other planets in 100 years and successfully design an improved
human race by the next millennium.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/514233.asp

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Jan. 15    Ever since the movie  The Fantastic Voyage  came 
out more than three decades ago,

scientists have imagined what it would be like to shrink down to the size of a 
molecule and take a look around.

 While the movie s shrinking ray has long been exiled to late night sci-fi 
 television, a group of researchers in
North Carolina have figured how to virtually achieve the same effect.


http://www.msnbc.com/news/515158.asp

The semiconductor industry has reached an important milestone on the path to 
producing 10GHz chips.

Joseph.

Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15404