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Michael A. Terrell Michael A. Terrell is offline
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Default Beyond spud guns


"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" wrote:

rangerssuck fired this volley in
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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.



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..


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