Eightball
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- Oct 13, 2004
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I found this fantastic web page about micro or Nano Technology.
I thought that this was still something, way in the future, but no, it's here folks.
check out this webpage and the images! Once at the webpage you can click, "categorys", and theres many more fantastic pictures!
http://mems.sandia.gov/scripts/images.asp
An example....These gears are no bigger than a human blood cell!
Triple-Piston Microsteam Engine
Water inside of three compression cylinders is heated by electric current and vaporizes, pushing the piston out. Capillary forces then retract the piston once current is removed
Grain of Pollen and Red Blood Cells
Drive gear chain and linkages, with a grain of pollen (top right) and coagulated red blood cells (lower right, top left) to demonstrate scale.
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Anyway......can you see future applications? I remember that movie many years ago where they shrunk these scientists into tiny little microscopic sized people and put them into a little micro-submarine and injected them into a human vein. I can picture these micro-machines getting small enough to have medical application, and of course other areas of technology too.
I think that move was called, "Fantastic Voyage"? Wasn't Raquel Welch in it
I thought that this was still something, way in the future, but no, it's here folks.
check out this webpage and the images! Once at the webpage you can click, "categorys", and theres many more fantastic pictures!
http://mems.sandia.gov/scripts/images.asp
An example....These gears are no bigger than a human blood cell!
Triple-Piston Microsteam Engine
Water inside of three compression cylinders is heated by electric current and vaporizes, pushing the piston out. Capillary forces then retract the piston once current is removed
Grain of Pollen and Red Blood Cells
Drive gear chain and linkages, with a grain of pollen (top right) and coagulated red blood cells (lower right, top left) to demonstrate scale.
............
Anyway......can you see future applications? I remember that movie many years ago where they shrunk these scientists into tiny little microscopic sized people and put them into a little micro-submarine and injected them into a human vein. I can picture these micro-machines getting small enough to have medical application, and of course other areas of technology too.
I think that move was called, "Fantastic Voyage"? Wasn't Raquel Welch in it
