It Is Not Possible

Not Necessarily Relevant Quote of the Week:

Rail travel at high speed is not possible because the passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.

— Dr. Dionysus Lardner, University College, London (1830)

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Comments

[Dr John Michael Nahay]

What is NOT possible is getting a PAID JOB anywhere in this world, especially the United States. All employers and jobboards
are liars.

[Rip]

Maybe you are demanding too much money.

[MysticMonkeyGuru]

What is NOT possible is seeing molecular manufacturing arrive before 2075.

[Jan-Willem Bats]

Not Necessarily Relevant my hiney. :)

[John B]

OK, I'll byte:

MysticMonkeyGuru: Is it 100 years, or 68, before we'll see an ad-hoc nanoscale construction capability? Why is there a ~33% differential in your comments on "To Invent a Nanomachine" and this thread? What is your proof? *curious look*

Seriously, I'm curious to know what you're basing your position on.

-John B

While I expect MMG chose 2075 simply because it's likely beyond our lifespans, let's consider - what factors actually might significantly delay atomically precise manufacturing (APM)?

MEMs has had technical challenges, but I believe its relatively slow rate of progress has been due more to sparseness of markets for devices of limited complexity. It faced a chicken-egg problem: large markets for MEMS might develop if it sufficiently complex devices could be built - but getting to that point would take a lot of investment, and that investment was not available because MEMS was too far from being able to create highly complex devices.

That clearly could apply to APM. On the other hand, if MEMS can get past that barrier, it might initiate a financially supportable path to APM. (E.g. surgical micro-bots might be profitable enough, and clearly could create demand for smaller and more capable devices.)

[Rip]

MMG is Jan-Willem Bats -- a troll on every forum he infects.

He'll never respond to your questions guys.

[Brian Wang]

So you are saying Jan-Willem Bats is responding to his own postings as MMG ? This is possible, I knew a guy in high school who debated himself via letters to the editor of a newspaper. JWB, our technological future site, which is linked from Crnano seems reasonable. I would not want to tar JWB if he was not MMG. Did you have some proof, that they are the same ?

[Rip]

Oops! I am wrong. MMG is ADBatstone, someone else entirely.

I don't know how I confused the two -- sorry about that.

[Rip]

My comment didn't seem to go through last time, so I'll repost real quick.

I was wrong -- MMG is ADBatstone, someone else entirely. The "Bats" confused me... sorry about that!

[Jan-Willem Bats]

I'm not MMG.

MMG hates my guts and has tried vandalizing the comments section of my site in the past with his nonsense.

But yeah, I can see how you screwed up the Bats thingy so no worries about it.