Are you doing the thing from The Three Body Problem? Because that nanotech was super dangerous. But also helpful apparently. I don't know what it does IRL
That is a science fiction story with made up technobabble nonsense. Honestly I couldn't finish the book--for a variety or reasons, not least of which that the characters were cardboard cutouts and completely non compelling. But also the physics and technology in the book were nonsensical. More like science-free fantasy than science fiction. But I digress.
Well, good luck. My startup is also pursuing diamondoid nanomechanical technology, which is what I understand the book to have. But the application of it in this and other sci-fi books is nonsensical, based on the rules of fiction not reality.
Yes; the major real-life application of nanotechnology is to obstruct the Panama Canal with carbon nanotubes.
(Even for a book which went a bit all over the place, that sequence seemed particularly unnecessary; I'm convinced it just got put in because the author thought it was clever.)
I also thought it was thoroughly unnecessary, and even risky from a plot perspective because they may have sliced the drive they were trying to recover, but thoroughly amusing none-the-less. Not terribly clever though. It was reminiscent of a scene from Ghost Ship. Although.. I guess I don't know which came first... ya, Ghost Ship did it first (2002 vs 2006). Not entirely the same, but close enough.
