Whitechapel - The Microchip Bible Thu, 23 May 2013 04:14:11 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9731#Comment_9731 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9731#Comment_9731 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:16:37 -0800 Allan Bible put on a pin-head sized chip



Researchers in Israel say they have succeeded in putting a version of the Bible on a chip smaller than a pinhead.

Its 300,000 words in Hebrew were inscribed on a silicon surface at the Haifa Institute of Technology.

Scientists say the aim of the project is to increase young people's interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

The record for the smallest copy is held by a Bible measuring 2.8x3.4x1cm (1.1x1.3x0.4in), weighing 11.75g (0.4 ounces) and containing 1,514 pages.

The 0.5sq-mm (0.01sq-in) nano-Bible was written on a silicon surface covered with a thin layer of gold (20nanometres thick - 0.0002mm).

It was written using a device called Focused Ion Beam (Fib).

"When we send the particle beam toward a point on the surface, the gold atoms bounce off of this point, thus exposing the silicon layer underneath," Ohad Zohar, one of the project's managers at Technion, said.

"By sending a particle beam towards various points on the substrate, we can etch any pattern of points, especially one that represents text."

The next step for Technion researchers is photographing the Bible and displaying it on a giant wall within the Faculty of Physics.

"In this picture, which will be 7m by 7m (23ft by 23ft), it will be possible to read the entire Bible with the naked eye (the height of each letter will be some 3mm - 0.1in)," Mr Zohar said.

"Near this picture, the original - the nano-Bible itself, which is the size a grain of sugar - will be displayed." ]]> The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9744#Comment_9744 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9744#Comment_9744 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:07:57 -0800 Andre Navarro The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9757#Comment_9757 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9757#Comment_9757 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:12:17 -0800 Brad McLoughlin Scientists say the aim of the project is to increase young people's interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Yeah, because the bible is what all the hip kids are reading. Throw a copy of Hustler on that, you might have a bit more success. ]]> The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9775#Comment_9775 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9775#Comment_9775 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:23:32 -0800 Cat Vincent
"In this picture, which will be 7m by 7m (23ft by 23ft), it will be possible to read the entire Bible with the naked eye"

'cos you couldn't do that before now... ]]> The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9834#Comment_9834 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9834#Comment_9834 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:23:01 -0800 Redwynd exactly do they expect anyone to be able to read text that is 3mm tall? My eyes aren't the worst, but that's half the size of newsprint!If they're going to project this on a wall (the only option that presents itself to my mind as being feasible), by the time you got close enough to see you'd be blocking the projection. ]]> The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9842#Comment_9842 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9842#Comment_9842 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:28:46 -0800 Allan The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9843#Comment_9843 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9843#Comment_9843 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:33:58 -0800 hemlock_martini
I bet you a dollar.

An INTERNET dollar. ]]> The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9857#Comment_9857 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9857#Comment_9857 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:25:23 -0800 Allan The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9859#Comment_9859 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9859#Comment_9859 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:27:36 -0800 Andre Navarro Make it small enough to pass through your bloodstream, and people will pay money to have nanobibles injected into them.

They sure as fuck will. The world is slowly becoming more and more like Transmetropolitan, is it not? ]]> The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9876#Comment_9876 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9876#Comment_9876 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:13:52 -0800 Alan Tyson
I'm surprised no one has discussed the obvious use of such an object - loading dozens of nano-bibles into shotgun pellets and using them as the ultimate vampire-deterrent. Obviously. ]]> The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9895#Comment_9895 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9895#Comment_9895 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:16:38 -0800 Andre Navarro I'm surprised no one has discussed the obvious use of such an object - loading dozens of nano-bibles into shotgun pellets and using them as the ultimate vampire-deterrent. Obviously.

You, sir, are a genius. ]]> The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9897#Comment_9897 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9897#Comment_9897 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:33:29 -0800 Alexis The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9932#Comment_9932 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9932#Comment_9932 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:18:40 -0800 Adrammalech The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9934#Comment_9934 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=9934#Comment_9934 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:46:13 -0800 Paul Duffield The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=10245#Comment_10245 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=10245#Comment_10245 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:10:19 -0800 pi8you It was written using a device called Focused Ion Beam (Fib).
I missed this in my initial read, but... The Bible: Fib Edition amuses me to no end.

The real fun comes when the lawyers/politicians get ahold of their own Fibs for the fine print :| ]]> The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=10272#Comment_10272 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=10272#Comment_10272 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:25:41 -0800 Jay Kay it will be possible to read the entire Bible with the naked eye

I say to thee BULLSHIT. Only if I had glasses and a telescope could I read that.

Hemlock & Artimus: I like the way you two gentlemen think. ]]> The Microchip Bible http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=11241#Comment_11241 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=387&Focus=11241#Comment_11241 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:17:38 -0800 Sarpedon
It was written using a device called Focused Ion Beam (Fib).

I missed this in my initial read, but... The Bible: Fib Edition amuses me to no end.

I read this as fib as in, "a trivial or childish lie" [webster's] so the bible is written in small lies? hmm... ]]>