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Default Beyond spud guns

On Thursday, July 31, 2014 10:27:18 AM UTC-4, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:
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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.




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...
http://www.research.ibm.com/articles...id=UYA9Qz_LoPd