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LOOKING FOR MORK?…

June 3, 2009 by Barbara

NANO…NANO….

Excerpts…

‘Nanotechnology. You’re probably familiar with its promise in the form of the Star Trek replicator. You want a glass of white wine and Chicken Cordon Bleu? Punch the keys on the microwave-like replicator and seconds later you’ll be drinking a glass of Pinot Gris and digging into a plate of steaming hot chicken.

The Star Trek replicator creates molecules from subatomic particles and arranges those molecules to form a requested object. Hungry? The replicator first forms atoms of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen –- arranges them into amino acids, proteins, and cells –- and puts them all together as your wine and chicken’

Full text link below….

http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/nano/how-close-are-we-real-nanotechnology

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FROM THE “DEADLIEST WEAPON” TO ENGINEERING MORE TO GROW UP USE IT…

June 3, 2009 by Barbara

TOP 10!…

BC- You gottal love ingenuity!…

Excerpt….

Number 10…’The Invention of Gunpowder

Ironically, it was a quest for immortality that led to the invention of the deadliest weapon before the arrival of the atomic bomb. Experimenting with life-lengthening elixirs around A.D. 850, Chinese alchemists instead discovered gunpowder. Their explosive invention would become the basis for almost every weapon used in war from that point on, from fiery arrows to rifles, cannons and grenades.’
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http://www.livescience.com/history/090525-top10-historical-events-1.html

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