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By: Eric Drexler

Eric Drexler — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:37:07 +0000

Ooops. Fixed, thanks.

As compensation for the typo, here’s a fun fact about xenon: It liquifies near room temperature at a pressure of about 50 atmospheres, and is a good, non-polar solvent for organic molecules — and, as a so-called (but not quite) “inert gas”, it forms a remarkably inert liquid. I expect that much of the exotic chemistry that can be performed with in vacuum (involving highly reactive radicals, carbenes, etc.) would work equally well in xenon.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:00:10 +0000

“The engine thrust will compensate for atmospheric drag …, and will keep the craft aloft until its xeon tank empties…”

Xeon=microprocessor; assuming you mean “xenon”.