Put up a nanotechnology forum?

[JonM]

Hi, I have been active on these forums for the past couple of weeks and I have learned a lot and I want to say Thank you.

 

 

This probably has been brought up already, but I think it would nice to have a forum dedicated to nanotechnology. I think its an upcoming science that will affect the future lives of the young generation today (like me ) And with all the great minds of these forums I feel a lot can be learned in this area.

 

 

Just a thought

[5614]

Nanotech would be interesting, it is a new and quickly growing (in all respects) area of science. There is actually a "why isn't there a forum for..." (or some such) thread in the Suggestions/Comments area of this site, try going there, nanotech does actually sound (to me) a very good suggestion, and I've never said that about other things.

[swansont]

You need to define what you mean, exactly, by nanotech. The Cornell Nanofabrication Facility has been around since 1981. So it's not really a "new" technology in that sense.

[5614]

And gravity existed before Newton discovered it.

 

You have a fair point, but it is kinda, well, you know exactly what I meant! But yeah, you are right... you still know what I meant though!

[ecoli]

Nanotech is pretty broad... it could go into many different catagories, such as bio, material sciences, chemistry, physics, computer science. How many people post things relevant to nanotech, anyway?

[JonM]

Well it would contain all areas, We can post the latest news and comment on them. Everday there is a new article having to do with some sort of amazing progress in the field.

[Dave]

It all depends on public consensus. If we see lots and lots of posts on the subject, then we might consider putting a forum up for it. But at the moment, we do have rather a lot of fora hanging around, and we try to be very selective on what we will and won't put up.

 

For the time being, I would suggest either the Engineering forum or possibly General Sciences failing that.