From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 04:29:46 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Nanotechnology
Message-ID: <199801172022.VAA15751@basement.replay.com>
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> 1 coulomb/second = 6.24 x 10^18 atoms/sec.  Assuming an atomic spacing
> of roughly 10^-10 meters, at that rate it'd take you about 18.5 days to
> construct one side of the cube with a thickness of 1mm, or almost four
> months to build another cube.  I'd guesstimate another 4 months to build
> the electronics for it.  And then you'd need some way to assemble the
> pieces.

ok, but how do you build a 10-cm cube inside of a 10-cm cube? :)