MNT sensor deployment
From Wise Nano
(this is pasted from a CRN blog discussion where Tom Craver asked how I would identify a MNT scale-up in progress in response to my suggestion the first scaled-up diamondoid MNT infrastructure be used to manufacture sensors to find other MNT scale-ups in progress)
I don't know the best sensor technology to lay down. Definity not a GAI-controlled infrastructure. I'm thinking a network of dumb dust-mote machines that relay a communication to the world's news agencies or to a WHO-ish organization, when the motes find whatever it is they're looking for. The network would have to be all-inclusive. For instance, if a government laying down the network claimed immunity from the network, it is a recipe for tyranny. The world's entire liquid helium reserves (28 bcm) could be monitored, but that won't work if only liquid nitrogen temps are needed for diamond MNT. UHV pumps emit a sound that could be traced via a network a microphones, but the pumps could probably be damped.
The best bet may be surface temperature sensors and air-pressure sensors. A low-temp SPM gets very cold; needs an insulating "thermos" to disguise this. I am thinking it would require a computer monitor sized object to enclose such a device. So there is an initial deployment of "thermometer motes" (designed to stick to surfaces) and the co-ordinates of suspect objects are noted. Then a less massive deployment of air-pressure motes commences, designed to penetrate all enclosed (potentially UHV) volumes. Anywhere a suspect object was previously noted, that object gets an air-pressure mote inside it. Any super low temps or UHV conditions observed by the motes are relayed to an IAEA-type watchdog agency for closer scrutiny. This way the Participatory Panoptician is avoided (preserves privacy) and an Orwellian dystopia is not a concern. Okay so Big Brother knows all the UHV and ultra low tempature conditions on earth, but who cares. Like I said, this only works if all nations with modern (2030-era) aerospace armaments are onboard: no exceptions.
