• SpaceX’s “Starship Update” livestream was shared as the day’s headline event, with a 24/7 Boca Chica construction feed offered as background viewing.  
• Participants voiced frustration that, despite a decade of aerospace progress, “Drexler-style” atomically precise manufacturing (APM) and nanofactories have not yet materialized.  
• nmz787 countered that atomic-layer deposition (ALD) and atomic-layer etching (ALE) are already industrial realities, indicating incremental nanoscale precision is advancing even if full nanofactories are not.  
• maaku argued that Eric Drexler always envisioned early-stage nanofactories based on DNA/protein machinery, and that research in that area is in fact moving quickly, albeit for biomedical rather than manufacturing purposes.  
• lsneff is developing next-generation CAD software intended to succeed NanoEngineer, capable of handling much larger molecular structures; release is planned in 1–2 years.  
• maaku proposed collaborating on a VR-enabled molecular CAD tool, citing prior work that cut ribosome-training time for NASA astrobiology students from months to days using immersive visualization.  
• A broader startup concept was outlined: an “app store” for molecular-machine designs with standardized licensing, coupled to a financial market that lets users speculate on future patent value to bootstrap the first true assembler.  
• Discussion touched on IP enforcement in digital matter—because designs are exact, infringement can be proven unambiguously, potentially avoiding the ambiguities seen in software patents.