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MIT claims it can shrink structures to 1000th of its original size.

Dryson

Dryson

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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/12/17/...ogy-trnd/index.html?__twitter_impression=true


If article is true then the ramifications of being able to shrink a structure to 1000th of its original size is exponential.

Being able to shrink structures will allow space travel to advancs beyong a leap or a bound.

Fuel and food can be created in smaller units allowing for both space faring commodities to carried in greater volumes to the Moon at the same price of the current Push X cost to the Moon.

I wonder if fuel is able to be shrunk structurally would it increase the propulsive exhaust value when rapidly uncompressed?
 
Dryson said:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/12/17/...ogy-trnd/index.html?__twitter_impression=true


If article is true then the ramifications of being able to shrink a structure to 1000th of its original size is exponential.

Being able to shrink structures will allow space travel to advancs beyong a leap or a bound.

Fuel and food can be created in smaller units allowing for both space faring commodities to carried in greater volumes to the Moon at the same price of the current Push X cost to the Moon.

I wonder if fuel is able to be shrunk structurally would it increase the propulsive exhaust value when rapidly uncompressed?
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I think you misunderstand. The laser can take an object, any object, and scan it so finely that it can be reproduced in nanoscale. As a result, you would get things like smaller optical lenses, smaller microchips, and so on. It's a breakthrough in microfabrication, not a shrink ray.
 
Amaris said:
I think you misunderstand. The laser can take an object, any object, and scan it so finely that it can be reproduced in nanoscale. As a result, you would get things like smaller optical lenses, smaller microchips, and so on. It's a breakthrough in microfabrication, not a shrink ray.
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Did I say anything about it being a shrink ray? No, I didn't.

The miniaturizing technology, called "implosion fabrication," could be applied to anything from developing smaller microscope and cell phone lenses to creating tiny robots that improve everyday life.

Since everything is made of molecules and molecular bonds the laser could scan the molecular pattern of rocket fuel or food and then use those smaller patterns to generate compressed patterns. Those compressed patterns would simply force the molecules into spaces between each molecule that are occupied by space to create an overall lower larger volume from a more compacted molecular structure.

Ice 7 is the name of ice - https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-have-created-a-rare-type-of-ice-found-on-alien-worlds/

If the molecules of rocket fuel and food can be compressed like Ice 7 via the scanning process discussed in the article then surely a new age in space exploration will begin.
 
Dryson said:
Did I say anything about it being a shrink ray? No, I didn't.
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Your initial statement was, and I quote:

Dryson said:
If article is true then the ramifications of being able to shrink a structure to 1000th of its original size is exponential.
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You used the word shrink. Moreso, you referred to a structure that could be shrunk to 1000th of its original size. You also used the word "exponential" to describe ramifications. The possibilities can be endless, the benefits can be exponential, but the ramifications wouldn't be exponential. Just an aside.

The miniaturizing technology, called "implosion fabrication," could be applied to anything from developing smaller microscope and cell phone lenses to creating tiny robots that improve everyday life.
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Yes, I know. That's what I said to you in response to your initial statement about shrinking a structure to 1000th its original size so it could be carried on space ships.

Since everything is made of molecules and molecular bonds the laser could scan the molecular pattern of rocket fuel or food and then use those smaller patterns to generate compressed patterns. Those compressed patterns would simply force the molecules into spaces between each molecule that are occupied by space to create an overall lower larger volume from a more compacted molecular structure.

Ice 7 is the name of ice - https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-have-created-a-rare-type-of-ice-found-on-alien-worlds/

If the molecules of rocket fuel and food can be compressed like Ice 7 via the scanning process discussed in the article then surely a new age in space exploration will begin.
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I have no idea what any of this is in relation to either what I said, or what the original article said.
 
Amaris said:
I think you misunderstand. The laser can take an object, any object, and scan it so finely that it can be reproduced in nanoscale. As a result, you would get things like smaller optical lenses, smaller microchips, and so on. It's a breakthrough in microfabrication, not a shrink ray.
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So all the solid state drives I have been buying, to replace my DVDs, are shite?
 
I've spent half the day moving Wings, and Will and Grace off almost two dozen 4gb dvds, that are covered in dust and finger prints, onto a 3tb SSD the size of a box of matches.
 
Yes, instead of having it spread out on lots of semi fragile limited lifespan carriers you now conveniently have it copied onto ONE fragile, limited lifespan device.. progress! :biggrin:

As for the rest, nice that you can scan stuff at such precission, doesn't mean you can actually fabricate things with such precission...
 
If it is so easy then CPU's would be made on 7nm or smaller already, Intel can't even get their 10nm process under control so no, I am certain that they can't just make stuff on an really small scale since there is no equipment that can do it, IBM wrote IBM in xeon molecules in 1989 already by pushing the molecules around with a scanning tunneling microscope, in 2013 they made a short movie even on a molecular level
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All nice research, same with the stuff shown in your link, but it is research, nothing that is used in the real world.
 
Amaris said:
. . . It's a breakthrough in microfabrication, not a shrink ray.
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So Fantastic Voyage isn't real yet? Damn.

NVCkEy7.jpg
 
Amaris said:
Fantastic Voyage was totally real. Nothing fake could recreate the ability for skin tight material to ride up someone's buttcrack like that.
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I mean, shrinking nuclear material beyound critical density, riding around in a submarine that would be so dense it would shoot at ballistic velocity at the Earths core, people so small their retinas could never work, using a hose to suck up air 2000 times larger than they could breath, finding a brain so empty and fibrous it could never support a human, with a blood clot no where near a blood vessel, using a high powered EM weapon inside a nerve cluster, with the submarine eaten by cells that also shouldn't be outside a blood vessel that can't eat composites or metal that rely on molecular interation not acid so the atoms are 2000 times smaller therefore it should totally have gone back to normal size exploding the guy and the room...

*takes breath*

Yeah, not bad.

Although, it was the film that meant my school contacted my parents because during "painting time" as I tried to paint bodily interiors having seen the movie the day before. Apparently internal organs aren't a suitable topic for 4 year olds.
 
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