Beyond spud guns

If they could only 3-D print Plutonium...

If they could only 3-D print Plutonium...

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Be careful what you wish for....

It ought to be easy with these multi-nozzle printers. You just fill one hopper with electrons, one with protons and one with neutrons and have at it.

Wouldn't surprise me at all if, in a hundred or a thousand years, such a machine would actually exist.

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IBM did something akin to that way back in 1989. They moved around individual atoms of Xenon on a substrate to spell out "IBM" at scanning- tunneling microscopy size.

Lloyd

Take a look at this - there's some awfully cool stuff going on out there...

You can even buy an antimatter gun:

-jsw

"Jim Wilkins" on Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:24:34

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It is being worked on. Maybe not intentionally working on 'printing' Plut parts, but eventually there will be some work with reactive metals. Like Aluminum.

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

Did they ever state how long they remained where you put them? That would be a way to put permanent serial numbers on expensive components.. :)

Custom printed aluminum beanies, for the loons?

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components..

Well... xenon might not be the best candidate there, as it's a gas at STP, but I'm sure other atoms - like precious metals - might be manipulated the same way.

The problems are mass and reactivity. Higher electron beam energies to move more massive atoms. Xenon was probably chosen because it is inert and light. No real dangers of its entering into chemical reactions with the substrate, which might move the dots.

Helium might have worked, too, but the atoms are so small that maybe even scanning-tunneling might not have shown them up very well -- if at all.

LLoyd

"Jim Wilkins" on Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:24:34

-0400 typed >> Here's a new hobby idea for the hard-core 2nd-Amendment types, who

It is being worked on. Maybe not intentionally working on 'printing' Plut parts, but eventually there will be some work with reactive metals. Like Aluminum.

I felt it was a Gee-Wiz, PR type of thing when they first announced it. The magazine I saw it in proclaimed it as the perfect computer memory. Useless trade journals strike again! :(

"Michael A. Terrell" on Thu, 31 Jul 2014

Proof of concept. "Okay, we know it works, can we do it in a manner which will scale up and be 'commercial'?" Sort of how Henry Ford built a horseless carriage in his shop, but built a factory to churn them out by the hundreds.

tschus pyotr

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

Speaking of lawn ornaments Ed, do you know what ever happened to Existential Angst (Kris)?

Speaking of lawn ornaments Ed, do you know what ever happened to Existential Angst (Kris)?

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I haven't heard from him for a long time. I'll try sending him email.

"Michael A. Terrell" on Thu, 31 Jul 2014

Ah, an oldy, but a goodie.

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

He tells it like it is. :)