Japanese Politicians To Discuss Building a Full-Sized, Working Gundam

[Monoriu]

Where does the term Gundum come from anyway?  I keep thinking of a giant Belgian karate robot named Jean Claude Van Gun-damme.

The way I understand it, Gundam means "steel bullet".

[DontSayBanana]

Unless someone has solved the chemistry and physics problems that would plague machines on the nanoscale.

Drexlerian?  Sure.  The problem is that everybody goes to the absolute smallest scales

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Mount one of these puppies on a bot the size of a dragonfly, and you've got a 1080p roving surveillance camera.  Put a couple dozen of those zipping around a target and not only have you got video coverage to rival surveillance satellites, they're mounted to targets that can only be hit with explosives or a really lucky shot...

[Razgovory]

Dragonflies must be bigger were you are.

[DontSayBanana]

Dragonflies must be bigger were you are.

I live on the edge of a swamp.  That goes without saying.

[The Brain]

Since when does nanoscale mean kinda smallish?

[Ideologue]

Since when does nanoscale mean kinda smallish?

Indeed.

[DontSayBanana]

Since when does nanoscale mean kinda smallish?

Sure, I've got a flexible definition of nano- basically, if I can get it to the size of my hand or smaller, I consider it "nano-scale."  I guess "micro-scale" would be a better description, but there you go.

[The Brain]

Since when does nanoscale mean kinda smallish?

Sure, I've got a flexible definition of nano- basically, if I can get it to the size of my hand or smaller, I consider it "nano-scale."  I guess "micro-scale" would be a better description, but there you go.

[Razgovory]

Since when does nanoscale mean kinda smallish?

Indeed.

I thought "nano" was like "giga" and represented a particular number or something.

[Ideologue]

Since when does nanoscale mean kinda smallish?

Sure, I've got a flexible definition of nano- basically, if I can get it to the size of my hand or smaller, I consider it "nano-scale."  I guess "micro-scale" would be a better description, but there you go.

Captain Carrot's hand: one nanometer wide.  But what does this say of his wiener?

[garbon]

Since when does nanoscale mean kinda smallish?

Sure, I've got a flexible definition of nano- basically, if I can get it to the size of my hand or smaller, I consider it "nano-scale."  I guess "micro-scale" would be a better description, but there you go.

Captain Carrot's hand: one nanometer wide.  But what does this say of his wiener?

[The Brain]

Since when does nanoscale mean kinda smallish?

Sure, I've got a flexible definition of nano- basically, if I can get it to the size of my hand or smaller, I consider it "nano-scale."  I guess "micro-scale" would be a better description, but there you go.

Captain Carrot's hand: one nanometer wide.  But what does this say of his wiener?

If he shares my basic anatomy probably 5-6 nanometers long.

[Neil]

Surveillance isn't really a useful application for nanotech.

[jimmy olsen]

Since when does nanoscale mean kinda smallish?

Sure, I've got a flexible definition of nano- basically, if I can get it to the size of my hand or smaller, I consider it "nano-scale."  I guess "micro-scale" would be a better description, but there you go.

Captain Carrot's hand: one nanometer wide.  But what does this say of his wiener?

If he shares my basic anatomy probably 5-6 nanometers long.