25-06-2003 06:55									#1
	Cosmetic companies are testing NANOTECHNOLOGY on innocent women!! Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

From New Scientist:

Cosmetics manufacturers are keen to appear cutting edge, and often blind consumers using scientific jargon. But buzzwords like "nanocapsules"-currently one of their favorites-could be their undoing.

Scare stories about nanotechnology turning the world to "grey goo" have lead Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP for South East England, to call for new regulations - and one of the targets she has in her sights is the cosmetics industry. Her website claims that "thousands of owman are acting as unwitting 'guinea pigs' for the cosmetics industry...with many products containing ingredients manufactured by 'nanotechnology'"
Famous facial products do indeed contain billions of nanoscopic capsules designed to help the skin absorb the cream's active ingredients. Though there's not a goo-making nanobot in sight, Lucas claims to be "horrified to find nanotech products sitting innocently in my bathroom cabinet."

	25-06-2003 07:09									#2
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Just think what will happen when someone makes combines those nanocapsules with a self-replicating von Neumann nanoassembly code! No power on Earth would be able to stop them! If I'm doing my calculations right, within seventy-two hours every woman on the planet would be beautiful! We've got to stop th....wait a second....

	25-06-2003 08:22									#3
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Vesayn, maybe you should stay away from the Net for awhile...

	25-06-2003 08:50									#4
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I am an environmentalist, but I very much disagree with the very dominant Luddite faction among us. Technology is good. It has solved environmental problems in the past and it will solve them again.

Nanotech is good.

	25-06-2003 09:30									#5
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No no no! It's like those evil genetically modified by cross breeding cattle and crops! Science is evil, I think we should run around naked, grunt, and pound eachother on the head senceless with giant clubs.

	25-06-2003 09:54									#6
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St. Leo,

The problem is not with insufficient technology. The problem is mostly a social one - or perhaps a socialization one.


Azazel,

The problem with food is not production, it's with distribution. GM not only tries to fix a problem that's not there, but it is also an attempt to monopolise seed supplies in the case of crops.

	25-06-2003 09:56									#7
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now look what has become of your precious space program and technologies, vesayan...

	25-06-2003 10:10									#8
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quote: Azazel, The problem with food is not production, it's with distribution. GM not only tries to fix a problem that's not there, but it is also an attempt to monopolise seed supplies in the case of crops.

yep, that's why the morons are running around in biohazard suits screaming "frankenfood, frankenfood".

	25-06-2003 10:12									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Azazel quote: Azazel, The problem with food is not production, it's with distribution. GM not only tries to fix a problem that's not there, but it is also an attempt to monopolise seed supplies in the case of crops. yep, that's why the morons are running around in biohazard suits screaming "frankenfood, frankenfood".

Com'on David, you can do better in responding to their arguments instead of just demonising them.

	25-06-2003 10:16									#10
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quote: Com'on David, you can do better in responding to their arguments instead of just demonising them.

Your economic argument is fair and valid, though debatable. I am talking about the bulk of anti-GM protestors which are the treehugging vegan morons enviromentalists.

	25-06-2003 14:20									#11
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GM is not useless, but current applications are. There are researches in GM for, say, producing (biodegradable) plastic in plants using GM. Now that's a better use of modern technology.

	25-06-2003 14:24									#12
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GM is useless in that there's no necessity for it so the risks are unjustified.

BTW Vesayen, you ought to have posted the bit on Quantum from that NS page, too. That was a major eye opener with regards to what the advertising authorities allow, or at least fail to stop.

	25-06-2003 14:29									#13
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quote: GM is not useless, but current applications are. There are researches in GM for, say, producing (biodegradable) plastic in plants using GM. Now that's a better use of modern technology.

There seems to be a market for current applications as well. Why is there such a demand?

Also, This field is just in it's diapers.

	25-06-2003 15:51									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Vesayen Though there's not a goo-making nanobot in sight, Lucas claims to be "horrified to find nanotech products sitting innocently in my bathroom cabinet."

Everybody has self-replicating nanobots in his bathroom.
They are called bacteria.

	25-06-2003 16:03									#15
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not only in his bathroom. EVERYWHERE.

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*JohnT starts vigorously washing his hands*

	25-06-2003 17:03									#17
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Innocent women ? Genetically modified, perhaps.

	25-06-2003 21:45									#18
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wait, nanocapsules count as nanomachines and nanotechnology?

	26-06-2003 02:26									#19
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Nanotechnology is the next big thing as far as the cosmetics companies are concerned. On my work's intranet site, half of the entire R & D section is based around nanotechnology.

	26-06-2003 02:46									#20
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I prefer a natural looking woman over a "bring out your natural look with X Y and Z" covered women.

	26-06-2003 02:52									#21
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nanotechnology is just a buzzowrd. All it means is small stuff. So if they have fibers that are mashed up real small. Or have a colloid or whatever, that is nanotechnology. You people think they mean little teensy metal robots. But all they really mean is small stuff. Heck, India ink is nanotechnology.

	26-06-2003 03:00									#22
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GP: "little teensy metal robots"