A Diamond Is… Really A Very Simple Molecular Structure
“The models you can see in this room,” said the guide, “represent some of the first models of carbon organizer. Carbon organizers were the earliest and simplest form of dry nanotechnology, capable of...
View ArticleOutbreak
The smell was a warning, hot, organic and yeasty like fresh-baked bread, with an underlying tang of metal, blowing across my chemosensors as I crashed into the apartment; the characteristic effusions...
View ArticleBy Their Warnings Shall Ye Know Them
Structural Metallic Oxygen Do not remove from cryogenic environment. Not for use in reducing atmospheres or vacuum. Defended Privacy Boundary Do not transgress with active sensoria. Please check...
View ArticleDr. Kajen’s Famous Nanosalts
The crystals fizzed as they dissolved, salt lattices slipping apart into their ionic components, releasing tiny pockets of oils, aromatic compounds, and CO2 trapped within them. Nanomachines, too, came...
View ArticleTrope-a-Day: Kill It With Fire
Kill It With Fire: Played straight in both senses. The Empire is certainly happy to use flamethrowers and other Fire Breathing Weapons, fire bombs, fire sheets, and other kinds of fire in war, not...
View ArticleTrope-a-Day: Grey Goo
Grey Goo: Mostly averted, for the simple reason that the power (and thermal management) requirements are something of a bugger. Breaking a great many of the chemical bonds which make up Stuff requires...
View ArticleTrope-a-Day: Nanomachines
Nanomachines: One of the very common forms of Applied Phlebotinium in the Empire, and the Worlds in general. However, this being at least firm SF, they don’t cause physically implausible superpowers –...
View ArticleTrope-a-Day: Overheating
Overheating: A problem everywhere. The logistics of a post-scarcity society may have eliminated most material-supply problems; advanced ergtech may have made energy not a meaningful practical...
View ArticleBloom
Today’s relevant shout-out goes to Destiny: Rise of Iron for its depiction of a nanotech bloom as something other than the traditional (boring) homogeneous gray goo: Meet SIVA: So many of the probable...
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