Timeline for Justifying why a nanoassembler can only produce inorganic things
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| Jan 18, 2023 at 15:12 | answer | added | mike james | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 18, 2023 at 8:15 | answer | added | Hans Olsson | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 22:03 | answer | added | Austin Hemmelgarn | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 17:34 | answer | added | redfrogcrab | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 15:08 | comment | added | Mark Dominus | Nanomanufactured food contains no élan vital, which is necessary to sustain life. | |
| Jan 17, 2023 at 8:19 | answer | added | Stig Hemmer | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 16, 2023 at 17:39 | comment | added | Josh Part | @RadvylfPrograms I get what you mean, but DKNguyen still has a point: building a world based around a misconception or a misunderstanding of a concept can easily lead people to start raising eyebrows against the foundations of such world. If the main concept around OP's idea is that their nanofactories cannot produce "organic stuff", but they produce things that are commonly made of organic-derived materials, the whole concept doesn't hold itself much and falls just as plot-convenient | |
| Jan 16, 2023 at 12:14 | answer | added | Corey | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 16, 2023 at 5:02 | comment | added | rydwolf | @DKNguyen Sure, just because what OP wants isn't really possible, that doesn't automatically change the intended meaning of their words | |
| Jan 16, 2023 at 3:13 | answer | added | user73910 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 16, 2023 at 2:01 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @RadvylfPrograms Wishy-washy terms don't work when you're talking about nanotech. The thing about nanotech synthesis is that it's structurally all the same. OP is asking why a carpenter can build chairs but not tables. The OP included clothing as one of the things that could be made and much of that is derived directly from living matter so even your layman definition doesn't work. If the OP only cares about food then the OP should just ask only about food. | |
| Jan 16, 2023 at 0:39 | comment | added | rydwolf | @AlexP There's more meanings of "organic" beyond the technical chemistry one...the first one that comes up when you search for its definition is "relating to or derived from living matter" which is clearly what OP means. | |
| Jan 16, 2023 at 0:26 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @JeremyFriesner I believe a better approach is to make it so nanomachines accumulate in the body when consumed and they can't be removed so although synthesized food is edible, you probably shouldn't eat it. | |
| Jan 16, 2023 at 0:19 | answer | added | Tom | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 23:26 | comment | added | Jeremy Friesner | What if food products can be produced, but for some reason they taste terrible and so nobody wants to consume them? E.g. You ask for a cup of tea and you get a plastic cup filled with a liquid that is almost, but not entirely, unlike tea :) | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 22:15 | answer | added | uhoh | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 19:33 | comment | added | Ralph J | You mean like sugar? Or salt? Producing a sizzling steak is a whole different task than producing a pile of sugar, and things that make the former difficult, or prohibited, might not apply (or could be easily bypassed) in the case of the latter. Non-nanno chemistry has long been able to synthesize artificial scents, and with sugar, water, dyes, and scents, you can make quite a bit of (admittedly non-nutritious) things that loosely qualify as "food". | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 16:28 | answer | added | IvanSanchez | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 6:09 | answer | added | Vesper | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 4:52 | answer | added | wizzwizz4 | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 3:56 | comment | added | Joseph Sible-Reinstate Monica | Do you need it to be completely impossible, or would it be good enough if it were technically possible but totally impractical (like creating precious metals in real life)? | |
| Jan 15, 2023 at 2:07 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jan 15, 2023 at 0:04 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jan 14, 2023 at 18:33 | answer | added | KEY_ABRADE | timeline score: 26 | |
| Jan 14, 2023 at 16:07 | comment | added | user91641 | Nanofactories are essentially magic and therefore any answer is as reasonable as the other. Can you expand on the worldbuilding aspects of this question or otherwise give context to narrow down what makes a good answer? In this form, it looks like brainstorming to me. | |
| Jan 14, 2023 at 13:27 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 14, 2023 at 10:03 | answer | added | TheDyingOfLight | timeline score: 29 | |
| Jan 14, 2023 at 10:02 | comment | added | AlexP | "Clothing": All the fabrics I have ever worn or treaded on were organic. Wool, cotton, linen, nylon, viscose etc. are all organic substances. The words organic and inorganic do not mean what you believe they mean. | |
| Jan 14, 2023 at 9:56 | comment | added | isdi0 | Perhaps it can't produce the complex molecules needed in organics? I know that a lot of organic molecules are extremely complex. | |
| Jan 14, 2023 at 9:56 | comment | added | vodolaz095 | copyright or/and regulatory restrictions | |
| Jan 14, 2023 at 9:52 | history | asked | user98816 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |