Cure for Cancer?

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http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2005/mar/nanobomb101305.html

Panchapakesan said the nanobombs are just that, tiny bombs on the nanoscale. “They work almost like cluster bombs,” he said. “Once they are exposed to light and the resulting heat, they start exploding one after another.”

The bombs are created by bundling the carbon nanotubes. With a single nanotube, the heat generated by the light is dissipated by surrounding air. In bundles, the heat cannot dissipate as quickly and the result is “an explosion on the nanoscale,” Panchapakesan said.

When the UD researchers saw the explosions, they realized it might be possible to use the microscopic bombs to kill cancer cells.
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“In the future, my vision is that people will have at-home kits that can detect cancer. After work they will be able to go to a clinic, be treated with nanobombs and go home,” Panchapakesan said. While these initial experiments are on breast cancer cells, he is also working to extend his method to prostate cancer and pancreatic cancer.
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Seems interesting.
 
You bastard! You will not double post after me!
 
explosions on the nanoscale? Damn, thats crazy.

Sorry OvA, your psychic abilities fail, because i'm not going to double post.
 
they realized it might be possible to use [insert new discovery here] to kill cancer cells.
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TBH, you hear that same line about twice a week in the news.
 
Yeah, but only by focusing SCALAR WAVES on cancer cells will we ever be able to cure it. It'd cause it to vibrate on it's chi armonics, bringing balance to the universe and causing homeopathic water to be released into the bloodstream.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Except nanotechnology is the one area that seems like it could actually work, Kirov.

Someone damn well better invent a cure for cancer soon because nowadays, it seems like everything can give you cancer.
 
We can now smoke, safely becuase by the time we get cancer it will be cureable.
 
Doesn't help you with the heart disease, emphysema, bronchitis, or any of the other diseases associated with smoking, does it?
 
Sulkdodds said:
Someone damn well better invent a cure for cancer soon because nowadays, it seems like everything can give you cancer.
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Posting on halflife2.net? :O
 
Solaris said:
We can now smoke, safely becuase by the time we get cancer it will be cureable.
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I doubt smoking will ever be harmless in mankind's history.
 
Angry Lawyer said:
Plus, cigars are cool.

-Angry Lawyer
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galloway.jpg

I'm getting one for my 16th birthday, then I can be just like him.
 
Heh. What a tool you are Solaris.
 
Nano tech?..... Is it just me or are a lot of things seen in science fiction movies/ novels /games slowly coming true. >.> <.< Ah heck if it cures cancer I wouldn't mind a few nanobot powered physcoatic robotic killing machines. lol j/k
 
NeoNight said:
Nano tech?..... Is it just me or are a lot of things seen in science fiction movies/ novels /games slowly coming true. >.> <.< Ah heck if it cures cancer I wouldn't mind a few nanobot powered physcoatic robotic killing machines. lol j/k
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Science produces fiction, fiction doesn't usually produce science. These concepts were thought about before the related science fiction discussing them in a fantasy setting were created.
 
Solaris said:
galloway.jpg

I'm getting one for my 16th birthday, then I can be just like him.
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I hold as much respect for Galloway as I do the dog shite on the bottom of trainers. You'll have no trouble being like him then Solaris.
 
I've always wanted a nice pipe. To chew on, not smoke or anything. I always chew on my pen.
 
NeoNight said:
Nano tech?..... Is it just me or are a lot of things seen in science fiction movies/ novels /games slowly coming true. >.> <.< Ah heck if it cures cancer I wouldn't mind a few nanobot powered physcoatic robotic killing machines. lol j/k
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As Raziaar said...perhaps, possibly, just maybe, concepts in sci-fi are inspired by real developments and theories... :upstare:
 
Solaris said:
We can now smoke, safely becuase by the time we get cancer it will be cureable.
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lol that is exactly what my grandmother told me she said 40 years ago,and then she got cancer and died :(

But on a lighter note, The FDA and all those other government organizations wont let cures be released to us, They make more money iff they sell us "treatment" drugs for the rest of our lives instead of giving us a one time cure. The FDA wont let researches give out natural cures for things because as soon as they make a claim it cures something, it becomes a "drug". And do you know how much money it takes to get a "drug" approved by the FDA(hundreds of millions). But thats just my little theory.
 
AWww man! I want something like that made! LOL
 
RakuraiTenjin said:
Nuke the bastards.

The cancer that is.
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Nuke the virus in my throat! <whining cough>
 
Question:

Would this be viable in a military or espionage sense?

Easily destroying and disrupting enemy electronics or communication? I can see this being similar to an EMP device.

Or like a poison or something, slip into food or drink and it will explode when you designate it to. Could pass through undetected because it's so new and not a typical poison etc etc. Could detonate in the heart somehow and then they will never know it was poison, think it was a heart attack or something.
 
The idea of using nanomachines as a weapon has been about for ages :D

-Angry Lawyer
 
We can use this for something far more important like war!
Drop remote-nano nukes in a threats water or something than as he drinks them, BOOM tons of nano nukes go off killing him from the inside!
MUAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA




hahahahahahah...
 
RakuraiTenjin said:
Question:

Would this be viable in a military or espionage sense?

Easily destroying and disrupting enemy electronics or communication? I can see this being similar to an EMP device.

Or like a poison or something, slip into food or drink and it will explode when you designate it to. Could pass through undetected because it's so new and not a typical poison etc etc. Could detonate in the heart somehow and then they will never know it was poison, think it was a heart attack or something.
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Highly, imagine a nanobomb(s) going off inside your heart ripping some tissue off in it, causing interal bleeding. Then, death.
 
Why would drinking poisoned-water result in nanobombs in your heart?
 
Fliko said:
Highly, imagine a nanobomb(s) going off inside your heart ripping some tissue off in it, causing interal bleeding. Then, death.
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That was my first thought...destruction.
 
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