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Thomas Yung (msgundam@mediaone.net)
Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:59:14 -0500
If you watch Star Trek: The Next Generation & Voyager, the you can understand more about nanotechnology. In "Trek", basically, if you break it down they're microscopic constructive robots with the ability to rebuild, construct or break down whatever they're programmed to do.
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----- Original Message -----
From: garrick lee
To: gundam@aeug.org
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [gundam] Re: What will it be, since Turn A combines all Gundam Was: Re: [...
--- Tabby <tabby@psn.net> wrote:
What's nanotechnology? How was in featured in G
Gundam?
Jorge
A friend or mine once referred to it as the "magic
pixie dust" of science
fiction. Nanotechnology relies on nanites,
microscopic robots capable of
deconstructing/reconstructucting material on a
microscopic or even
molecular scale. A nanotech colony in a plate of
armor could rebuild or at
least signifcantly repair damage to the armor, first
by collectin any chips
of armor as soon as thier released by damage, and
simply rebuilding them
into the armor. Imagine a collection of nanites as a
colony of bacteria
that can tear apart or create any substance, and
then consider that it can
be precisely controlled by a computer.
The Devil Gundam was built to introduce
nanotechnology to Earth's ecology,
in hopes that the self-replicating microscopic
robots could clean up the
environment. Although it was not used as intended,
the D Gundam's
nanotechnology had some startling effects in G
Gundam.
tby
a bit off the side, but i think the problem with
"devil gundam" (and the rest of g gundam series) is
that it's almost deliberately misleading. the machine
was meant as earth's savior, yet it was named "devil
gundam" from the start -- symbolically paired against
the god gundam (how allegorical can you get before it
becomes cheese?).
the plot twists are nice, but when you think back to
the past of the story, you get the feel that the plot
twist was put there for the sake of having a plot
twist to throw the viewer off track. that is not an
example of a good plot twist, to me.
-garrick
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