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[mercy]

yep nanites

[ROOTless]

The trick is that certain chemical compounds can best be viewed as nanites for these purposes.
Nano-robots are a bit... tricky. We're ata scale where we pretty much have to talk about chemistry and functional groups, not about gears and matelic saws. Partially because a number of materials (including metals) change properties at the nano scale.

Nanolink of today: delayed until tommorrow.

[Pimp-Boy 2000]

I think there's a fine line between a nanobot and a nanoscopic compound: nanoscopic compounds occur naturally, whereas nanobots must be engineered, grown, or otherwise created in a laboratory or factory, and do not occur within nature.

[Ruski]

well, instead of nano-bots, you could have nano guns... just reaalllllyyyy small fire-arms.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[mercy]

going back to lasers have a intresting concept to recharge a weapon you just shake it for about a min or two the technolgy is already out

[Ruski]

That's a chemical based power supply.

they aren't very reliable.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[mercy]

actural was refering to eletro-magnitc kinitic engergy metheod they have flashlights now that use it

[Ruski]

OH, like the self-winding watches...

it takes almost constant movement to keep a watch working.... i don't know how well that would work to power a laser,... they aren't very energy efficent...

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Pimp-Boy 2000]

That's funny, because the other day I had an idea for Power Armor that was powered by kinetic energy collectors.

Also, I remember how ROOTless was telling us plasma guns weren't likely to ever be created because of the size that the barrel would have to be to launch plasma at the target....

So I came up with a new idea: plasmathrower.  Like a flamethrower, except it uses plasma.

Eat that, crazy physicist person!!

[Ruski]

would have been cooler if you based it on a catapult design instead.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

(gernades are so much easyer)

[mercy]

acturaly based on the comercials and the ones have seen at wall mart they stay charged for quite a bit

[Ruski]

I've read the package on the 'high end' ones... they use ultra bright LED lights and perfectly reflective dirrectional mirrors to create as much light for a little effort as possible, and to get an hour charge, you have to shake the thing silly for the better parts of fifteen minutes... and that's on a super efficent model.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[ROOTless]

So I came up with a new idea: plasmathrower.  Like a flamethrower, except it uses plasma.

Eat that, crazy physicist person!!

That's actually not too bad an idea. I wrote one up for GURPS a few years ago as I recall.

[Ruski]

wouldn't you burn your own face off?

it would be like a gernade that was on the end of a stick...

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Pimp-Boy 2000]

C'mon, dude.  You put a thick shield on the end of the nozzle or near the handgrip, which is concave in respect to the plasma blast and highly reflective to stave off the heat, while still being lightweight.

Sheesh.  Elementary!