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- From: mckendre@sal-sun50.usc.edu (Thomas Mc Kendree)
- Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
- Subject: Re: Snowballing tomk
- Message-ID: <Aug.31.15.30.16.1992.28232@planchet.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 19:30:17 GMT
- Sender: nanotech@planchet.rutgers.edu
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- Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu
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- In article <Aug.29.01.41.38.1992.13174@planchet.rutgers.edu> mmcalees@sol.uvic.
- ca (Michael McAleese (One of 'Those Dudes')) writes:
- > Heck, all someone has to do [to come up with a commercially successful
- >project drawing on nanotechnology] is come up with a nano (or micro) machine
- >that will rove around the body killing fat cells. "The Nano-Tech Diet!
- >Lose ALL excess fat with NO dieting, NO exercise, NO WORRY! Several
- >injections of tiny robots cleanse your system of unwanted fat SAFELY!
- >EASILY! But not cheaply..."
- > Making millions would be easy...
-
- Let's not be too hasty. Your body needs fat cells. Without ANY, you might
- get horribly sick and even die the next time you get the flu (the fat cells
- power you to keep going while your digestive system is down.)
- While it is fun now to kick around ideas like Michael's, well before
- implementation we will have to look out for unwanted side effects. Perhaps
- what really will be needed is some device that might kill some fat cells, but
- that cleans out a lot of the fat in the other cells, and essentially
- "retunes" your entire metabolism. Even so, if you keep the current body
- design, and never exercise, you will have to go "back to the shop" a lot
- more often to keep in shape.
-
- [Perhaps a constant blood filter that keeps the levels of cholesterol
- and so forth within certain limits. No need to have little cell-killing
- machines running loose all over your body...
- --JoSH]
-