Biovorous self replicating nano-bots.

[That Dude]

http://www.foresight.org/nano/Ecophagy.html

(How much you want to bet that only Pascal posts on this?)

[EricTheFred]

I'll bet a gigabuck.

[That Dude]

Oh you ruined it...

Anyway it's kinda interesting, the world could be totally destroyed by nano bots within two hours...

[Midori]

If this happens, I'm blaming Google.

[Peanut]

If this happens, I'm blaming Google.

Your blaming Google for Pascal being the only one posting in this thread?

[Esoteric]

First it's nuclear war.
Then terrorist launched bio-weapons
Then hurricanes and heat waves from global warming.

Now I have to worry about getting eaten by rogue nano bots?
That's it. I'm moving to the moon.

[That Dude]

First it's nuclear war.
Then terrorist launched bio-weapons
Then hurricanes and heat waves from global warming.

Now I have to worry about getting eaten by rogue nano bots?
That's it. I'm moving to the moon.

I'm much more scared of being eaten by nano-bots than I am of anything on that list...At least with the others you can actually see it coming. With biovorous nano bots you'd be eaten away without knowing what was going on.

[Esoteric]

So...you'd be less afraid of your imminent doom if you saw it coming?

Ah, but I jest. As Lewis said, "It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not chance at all, but certainty."

Nano bots or not, the world's gonna end for everyone some day.

[That Dude]

Yes I think I would be less afraid if I saw it coming...Well actually probably not, its just it's creepier thinking that something like that could happen at any moment without anybody realizing it. Like you're talking to somebody and then poof they're gone!

[Hana Ryuuzaki]

[font="palatino Linotype"]Well, it wouldn't be just "poof"...
They'd disappear bit by bit, kinda slow...
But ah, that's just my 2 cents.

(lol at morbid humour. xD)[/font]

[That Dude]

Yeah it really depends on how fast they were self replicating...It could be a slow disintegration or one second they're there, next they aren't.

[Paul]

Well, to tell you the truth, I'm still trying to figure this thing out. I got a good idea, but reading through all that science stuff gave me a mean headache.

Pardon me now, I think I need a tylenol.

Paul

[Lady Kenshin]

Sounds cool, if a bit scary.

[Roy Mustang]

It took them this long to see nano bots as a threat? Darn!


I remember doing a five page report about nano and nano bot technology in high school and that was in 1997. Which I had the pro and cons of nano technology and how they could be a threat to mankind.

[font="Book Antiqua"][color="Red"]Col. Roy Mustang[/color][/font]

[Doubleshadow]

HA! That's hilarious. We've been semi-seriously discussing this while giggling in the department for a while. (We are also a bionanotech. lab, but I do more molecular.) Old news. And a public policy recommendation, too. Someone's looking for funding.

[Kaligraphic]

Eh, I made a nanoplague back in college. It destroyed the world and I had to build a time machine to go back and prevent the catastrophe. I think the message is clear.

While nanoplagues are likely to kill us all, there is NO POSSIBLE HARM that can come from time travel, and monkeying with the timeline should be encouraged.

[Maokun]

On the bright side, if we get devoured by nanobots, we won't have to keep worrying about the Large Haedron Collider going awry and converting the planet in a strange matter star