Scientists inscribe entire Bible onto pinhead
By Darren Murph 
posted December 24th 2007 12:28AM
posted December 24th 2007 12:28AM
And you thought that fellow who managed to fit your entire name -- middle initial included -- onto a grain of rice was hot stuff. Apparently, a team of nanotechnology experts at the Technion institute in Haifa were able to etch some 300,000 words (Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible) onto a minuscule silicon surface "less than half the size of a grain of sugar." The feat was accomplished by "blasting tiny particles called gallium ions at an object that then rebounded, causing an etching affect," and was reportedly done in order to show that copious quantities of data could eventually be stored on bio-molecules and DNA. Oh, and it only took about sixty minutes to finish the job.[Image courtesy of ChicagoSpots]
Now if i could only harness this machine to write my essays at 300k words per hour!
pictures or it didn't happen
Here you go: http://pard.technion.ac.il/archives/presseng/Html/PR_bibleENG_18_12.files/image003.jpg
Directly from the Technion press release (18/12/2007) found here: http://pard.technion.ac.il/press/PressrelE.asp
i'm waiting for the subsequent deal with Uncle Ben's bible-flavored rice.
So now they've got pin heads and pea brains covered.
What's next?
I'm sorta disappointed in a lot of the people here. I don't know that I expected better, but I could have been pleasantly surprised. I'm an atheist, but on this one day I lay down all my arguments. Often acts in the name of God sicken me. Horrific things have been perpetrated in that name. But for all their failings some amazing things have been done in His name as well. And it's this day, or even season that so many of those things are done. I think nearly all Christians have their hearts in the right place at this time. I wish we could all respect that. I wish we could all carry peace for even just this one day.
In case you haven't figured out who you are, the God doesn't exist crowd, the small minded Christians commenters, and the Bush bashers, I'm talking to you. If nothing else I don't think anyone can fault that historical figure who preached peace on Earth. Some other day we can talk about his divinity, but today we all ought take the message to heart.
blah blah blah blah blah. forget everything you learn. life could be fantastic without invented religions. I don't care about christmas. It's a commercial thing, like halloween. I try to give a chritsmas to everyone I love everyday. and I don't need a pinhead with the bible on it. useless.
Is "Amen" an appropriate remark to that, Brent. :) ITA. Peace on Earth and Merry Solstice. ;)
I'm an atheist, but I celebrate Christmas for the values it represents, not the religions meaning.
This isn't new tech.
They used an ion gun to do this. It's in the same family as an electron microscope. They have tools like this on assembly lines at most semiconductor plants to test and edit their chips on the molecular level. Cool stuff, and i'm glad its getting press. It's amazing what they are able to do with these things, and no one knows about it. They can see atoms now!
One of the premiere companies that produces these tools is actually releasing a table-top version of their microscope for around $100k, for use in schools and smaller laboratories and stuff. Compared to a million bucks, that's way affordable.
I want one in my garage.
I see a strange pattern in new technology:
- The smallest device is often being used to put the bible on it
- The largest device gets in most cases only filled with pr0n
Ummmmm, why??
I recall this having happened already....like 5 years ago...correct me if Im wrong.
And God came forth and sent unto them a nanoprinter such that they could record his teachings, and they were joyous and gave thanks, before finding out that their wives were being coveted whilst they were in the lab.
LMAO!
*sigh... saw this on sciencedaily.com about 5 days ago OLD NEWS! :)
Guillermo? And I thought the first book was Genesis. Must be the Rick James' Version.
It's really only a matter of time until the robots take over.
I'd like to see this in a practicle application. Like, writing a high-def movie in the space of "half the size of a meg" or something similar...that would be truly revolutionary.
I think it's a little misleading to say they printed the "entire Bible". To me, at least, this implies the Christian Old and New Testaments; if it's just the "Jewish Bible" as mentioned in the article, then it is likely just the Old Testament or the Torah- a significantly smaller portion of text.
Disregarding that, Wow. Cool. What kind of pin was it, and how did they get the head flat enough to get a good "canvas"? Can they read it with a scanning electron microscope?
It's no fly eyeglasses.
Why is this news? The bible has already been inscribed onto millions of pinheads!
[/inflammatory anti-religion joke]
So....Where's my Jetpack or Teleporter? Quit wasting time with stupid shit like this and give me my jetpack.
They were going to put the complete knowledge of George Bush on there but couldn't think of what to do with the rest of the space.
that's some pretty fast typing... 300.000 words in 60 seconds huh?
"300,000 words"
Ah, but I heard they cheated! The left out all the vowels!
Scientists and Bible in the same sentence, no way. Why are scientists using the bible?
I guess the only people left to covert are the microscopic organisms
So now when I tell them to take their Bible and stick it, they can't claim I'm being anti-religious.
Wow, really! Adams... no way!!!Tool!!!