It's A Small World

Something that has always facinated me is Nanotechnology. The aray of things scientists are creating at Nano-Sizes astounds me and makes me wish I were a Nano Scientist instead of an Executive Administrative Assistant. Not that being an EAA isn't fun and adventurous, I get my own acronym and all, but still...

Then again, the skeptical side of me wants to believe that these Nano-Scientists are really just making it all up. I mean they show us the microscopic images, but who couldn't do that with a little help from Photoshop?! I mean really! They shrunk a 30ft blood-clot-busting machine to the size of a pinhead so it could fit through a vein??!? Is Wayne Szalinski behind this? And as far as working prototypes...well I have yet to see one. Not that I've attended any Nanotechnology Seminar or Launch where I could see a working prototype in action, but still...

But it is pretty exciting the things they've created on the nano-scale:

1. Carbon Nanotubes for Biological Sensors
2. Nanometer-scale building blocks that can spontaneously assemble themselves into ultra-tiny spheres, tubes and curved sheets.
3. Self-Assembling Nano-Electronics
4. Microscopic Gears
5. NANOART : Graphite; Microflakes of Oxypolyvinylchloride (say that ten times fast)
6. Nanosize Guitar (if nobody can hear it, does it really play?)
7. Space Transportation with Nanotubes

And the list goes on.

That's it for today...tell me why I chose this to sign off with.

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