A question for the fen.

[kengr]

You are wandering through the dealer room at a medium to large convention (Westercon, Baycon, that sort of thing).

There's a table with a couple of people wearing some pretty good spacesuit outfits, complete with mirrored helmets. Even have "translators" with an appropriately "computer" voice.

They're selling toy radio controlled flying saucers. They zip around nicely, making a humming noise much like the cars in the Jetsons.

They want $50 for them.

What do you do?

Comments

Re: To be expected...

[kengr]

You also have proof that they aren't perfect. In disassembling the original, at some point you'll wind up with a screw that had to be turned from the side because you can't get a straighgt shot at the head. And while it can be unscrewed enough to seperate the parts it's holding together, it can't be removed all the way as there isn't *room*.

Handing that part and screw to a machinist ought to producing some interesting reactions. :-)

Oh yeah, "atomic/molecular constructors" aka "fabbers" are not necessarily nanotech. They could be used to construct "nanites", but they are not nanites or even necessarily nanite based.