Nanotechnology Animation
Animation describing the research and goals of the Siteman Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Visit www.sccne.wustl.edu for more information about the Siteman Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence.
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NANOWEAPONRY: THE NEWARMS RACE – Nanofactories make the manufacture of many kinds of weapons possible with incredibly accurate computerized systems. While older technologies were both difficult and costly, nanoweapons could be manufactured easily and quickly. Conventional style weapons made more powerful and new weapons such as poison-carrying nanorobots could be made by the billions nearly cost-free and delivered remotely. Once inhaled, they might even be tailor-made to kill only people with specific genetic signatures, thus used as a means for ethnic cleansing. An arms race could trigger reckless development and testing of new weapons with unpredictable results. Experts agree this is probably the #1 potential danger of molecular nanotechnology. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND EXISTENTIAL DANGERS – The use of nanofactories to make countless cheap, durable products could lead to ‘disposable thinking’ where products are created en mass and discarded in abundance, overwhelming recycling needs and the environment. Poor nations might use biomass (carbon-rich trees) as fuel for nanofactories, leading to increased deforestation. Experimentation in nano-augmentation of plants and animals (for example, to make them larger, smaller, faster, stronger, etcetera) could easily lead to runaway consequences in the wild (“green goo” vs “gray goo”) that could threaten existing plants and animals, affect the food chain, and pose unforeseen threats to human life. This is a prime concern. Ecophage …
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He speaks more like Michio Kaku except biology.
So my comment is this..
Crazy Nigga. Im gonna show this to my Bio Prof.
LOL, it’s worse than I thought. The membrane? OH? what happened to photodetection? recognizing viral invaders? This guy has a sickness and I’ gonna figure out what it is.
“the brain of the cell is the structure that controls the signals that tell the cell what to do in response to the environment”
Let’s deconstruct this brouhaha. In brief his claim is gobbledygook. He’s not saying that the protein’s structure is the brain, because those are reacting to signals(not controlling them). The environment isn’t the controller because that is contingent on circumstances.
In a different shape a protein can attach or not to a section of DNA mediating transcription..
This man understands biology but he is biased towards a specific answer. That is politics and not science.