Naturally forming Pyrite cubes.

[Gingerbread Demon]

Resistance is futile.....

https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/29330/why-does-pyrite-form-cubic-crystals

Isn't nature amazing, the crystals in the pyrite form into cubes.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Resistance is futile.....

https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/29330/why-does-pyrite-form-cubic-crystals

Isn't nature amazing, the crystals in the pyrite form into cubes.

Where`s the fiction?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Where`s the fiction?

Oops posted to wrong forum

 

[Gaith]

Where`s the fiction?

It was a dark and stormy night...

 

[NCC-73515]

It was a dark and stormy night...

Perhaps it gets better.

 

[publiusr]

Besides, what the Borg really want are Tubulanes
www.spacedaily.com/reports/Theoretical_tubulanes_inspire_ultrahard_polymers_999.html

Magnet Legos for nanites?
www.spacedaily.com/reports/Magnets_for_the_second_dimension_999.html

Cutting beams and liquid metals
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6467/856
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.201903864

On materials
https://honeybadgerosu.wordpress.com/
www.popularmechanics.com/technology/design/a29846573/dickies-project-custom-fabricator/
www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a30199330/robotic-blacksmithing-metamorphic-manufacturing/
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=49694.0