According to Robert Freitas of the Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, a typical blood borne medical nanorobot would be between 0. 5-3 micrometres in size, because that is the maximum size possible due to capillary passage requirement.

According to Freitas and Merkle, the only known extant source on Taylor ’ s concept of the “ Santa Claus machine ” is found in Nigel Calder's Spaceships of the Mind.

According to some versions of functionalism, even non-human systems, such as other animal species, alien life forms, or advanced computers can, in principle, have mental states.

According to this series, an area of Earth stretching from Florida to Venezuela will be devastated by an alien attack in 2153, resulting in the death of 7 million people.

According to the DVD commentary of the film, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, actors Leonard Nimoy and Kirstie Alley, portraying Spock and Saavik respectively, spoke their lines in English, and later dubbed in alien dialogue ( at least partially designed by linguist Marc Okrand ) that corresponded with the movements of their mouths in the scene.

According to Grotius, letters of marque and reprisal were akin to a " private war ", a concept alien to modern sensibilities but related to an age when the ocean was lawless and all merchant vessels sailed armed for self-defense.

According to biographer Neil McAleer, Clarke may have been uncertain about publishing the novel because of its thematic focus on the paranormal and transcendence with the alien Overmind.

According to Ross ' version, the play is set within the fantastical alien city, Yhtill, adjacent to Aldebaran.

According to a victims brother, Mirtala Linares ', testimony, “ He wouldn ’ t tell us anything ; he claimed they hadn ’ t captured, that he knew nothing of his whereabouts – and that maybe my brother had gone as an illegal alien to the United States!

According to Irish Government papers he was deported as " a destitute and undesirable alien ".

According to Schwarzenegger, filming was physically demanding as he had to swim in very cold water and spent three weeks covered in mud for the climactic battle with the alien.

According to the U. S. Department of Justice and the Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ), an Amerasian is: " n alien who was born in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, or Thailand after December 31, 1950, and before October 22, 1982, and was fathered by a U. S. citizen.

According to the proponents of Friendliness, the goals of future AIs will be more arbitrary and alien than commonly depicted in science fiction and earlier futurist speculation, in which AIs are often anthropomorphised and assumed to share universal human modes of thought.

According to the Niven story The Soft Weapon, Pierson was a crewman aboard a spaceship at a time when there was a camp revival of the ancient Time for Beany TV show featuring Cecil the Sea-Sick Sea Serpent, an animated character based on a hand puppet ; Pierson accordingly described the alien he had met as a Puppeteer, given some resemblance of the head and neck with Cecil.

According to the fictional Macross continuity, the fighter was developed with overtechnology obtained from the massive alien space ship that crashed on Earth in the year 1999.

According to Cooper, the Illuminati conspirators not only invented alien threats for their own gain, but actively conspired with extraterrestrials to take over the world.

According to the Internal Revenue Service, an au pair will almost always be a nonresident alien, and will be required to file a tax return on Form 1040NR or Form 1040NR-EZ IRS tax forms # 1040NR and 1040NR-EZ to report his or her au pair wages.

According to Gene Roddenberry and Stephen Whitfield, the prominence of a woman among the crew of a starship was one of the reasons that the original Star Trek pilot was rejected by NBC, who, in addition to calling the pilot " too cerebral ", felt that the alien Spock and a female senior officer would be rejected by audiences, although Roddenberry also related the tale of how women of the era had difficulty accepting her as well.

According to Kellner ( 1991 ) on Maimonides, a ger toshav ( or Noahide ) could be a transitional stage on the way to becoming a ger tzedek () or " righteous alien ", a convert to Judaism.

According to The Political Language of Islam, during the Islamic period, Ajam was originally used as a reference to denote those whom Arabs in the Arabian peninsula viewed as " alien " or outsiders.

According to the Vectrex manual, the story involves " protecting your comrades from alien ships trying to infiltrate your culture " and " defending the sovereignty of your planet ".

According to the League, Southern society differs greatly from what it sees as the Marxist and egalitarian society lacking " any grace or charm " that its " alien occupier " seeks to " impress upon it.

According to the official website for The Sarah Jane Adventures in 2007, the Doctor stored several presents for Sarah inside K-9, including a " sonic lipstick " and a watch that scans for alien life.

According to the 1997 Virgin New Adventures novel Eternity Weeps by Jim Mortimore, Liz dies in 2003, the victim of an extraterrestrial terraforming virus contracted while she was part of a UNIT team investigating an alien artefact on the Moon.

According to adaptation director Hiroshi Yamaga, Gainax changed the direction of the film to make the dialogue less " alien " to Japanese viewers.

According to researcher Peter Rogerson ( who is generally skeptical of alien abduction claims ), the idea of allegedly genuine alien implants can be traced back to the 1950s, as part of the so-called " Shaver Mystery " -- claims that the " Dero ", a sinister civilization beneath the earth, was kidnapping people for torture.

According to archaeological evidence and Spanish chronicles the civilization existed from Bahia de Caraquez to Cerro de Hojas in the south.

Pale, dirty, with drugged eyes, vulgar, repulsive ..." According to Cornwell, a worrying impression of stereotypical anti-Semitic contempt is discernible in the ' catalogue of epithets describing their physical and moral repulsiveness ' and Pacelli's " constant harping on the Jewishness of this party of power usurpers " chimed with the " growing and widespread belief among Germans that the Jews were the instigators of the Bolshevik revolution, their principal aim being the destruction of Christian civilization ".

According to Roger Luckhurst, the origin of the concept of telepathy ( not telepathy itself ) in the Western civilization can be tracked to the late 19th century.

According to Massimo Pallottino, a scholar of Sardinian prehistory and an Etruscologist, the architecture produced by the Nuragic civilization was the most advanced of any civilization in the western Mediterranean during this epoch, including those in the regions of Magna Graecia.

According to Indonesian law, the Indonesian language is the language proclaimed as the unifying language during Sumpah Pemuda in 28 October 1928, developed further to accommodate the dynamics of Indonesian civilization.

According to Ellingson, Fairchild ends his book with a denunciation of the ( always unnamed ) believers in primitivism or " The Noble Savage " -- whom he feels are threatening to unleash the dark forces of irrationality on civilization.

According to theAnnals of Sunjong, Gojong said on 28 October 1909 that Itō Hirobumi made great efforts to develop civilization.

According to legend, when the Mexicans arrived in the Anahuac valley around Lake Texcoco, they were considered by the other groups as the least civilized of all, but the Mexican / Aztec decided to learn, and they took all they could from other people, especially from the ancient Toltec ( whom they seem to have partially confused with the more ancient civilization of Teotihuacan ).

According to some historic sources from Peru, ceviche would have originated among the Moche, a coastal civilization that began to flourish in the area of current-day northern Peru nearly 2000 years ago.

According to the later folk image, Boone the trailblazer was too unsophisticated for the civilization which followed him and which eventually defrauded him of his land.

According to Rohrlich, " any scholars are convinced that Crete was a matriarchy, ruled by a queen-priestess " and the " Cretan civilization " was " matriarchal " before " 1500 B. C .," when it was overrun and colonized.

According to legend, the gods had allotted a certain number of saecula to every people or civilization ; the Etruscans themselves, for example, had been given ten saecula.

According to the archeologist William Meacham, it was only after the late Shang dynasty that one can speak of " Chinese ," " Chinese culture ," or " Chinese civilization.

According to Sitchin, ancient inscriptions report that the human civilization in Sumer, Mesopotamia, was set up under the guidance of these " gods ", and human kingship was inaugurated to provide intermediaries between mankind and the Anunnaki ( creating the " divine right of kings " doctrine ).

According to him, at points where geo-cultural domains first enter the ocean of human civilization, there is likely to be a concentration or dominance of that culture.

According to Krugman, his interest in economics began with Asimov's Foundation novels, in which the social scientists of the future use ' Psychohistory ' to attempt to save civilization.

" According to Williams, in nature, especially in the wilderness, Muir was able to study the plants and animals in an environment that he believed " came straight from the hand of God, uncorrupted by civilization and domestication.

According to him, people from the Western pluralistic civilization are more prone to this fallacy because they used to resolve problems by making compromises and accept alternative interpretations, unlike Russians who are looking for the absolute truth.

" According to Hitchens, the concept of a god or a supreme being is a totalitarian belief that destroys individual freedom, and free expression and scientific discovery should replace religion as a means of teaching ethics and defining human civilization.

According to these esoterists, Hyperborea was the Golden Age polar center of civilization and spirituality ; mankind does not rise from the ape, but progressively devolves into the apelike condition as it strays physically and spiritually from its mystical otherworldly homeland in the Far North, succumbing to the demonic energies of the South Pole, the greatest point of materialization ( see Joscelyn Godwin, Arktos: The Polar Myth ).

According to Hawass, " Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.

According to the Book of Han ( 1st century CE ), Jizi brought agriculture, sericulture, and many other facets of Chinese civilization to Joseon.

According to a scientist the marine finds alive in the labs, the Soul Cube is a weapon created by the ancient civilization to defend against the forces of Hell.

According to Fukuzawa, civilization is relative to time and circumstance, as well in comparison.