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Biovorous self replicating nano-bots.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:05 am
by That Dude
http://www.foresight.org/nano/Ecophagy.html

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

PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:23 am
by EricTheFred
I'll bet a gigabuck.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:26 am
by That Dude
Oh you ruined it...

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

PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:01 pm
by Midori
If this happens, I'm blaming Google.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:06 pm
by Peanut
Midori (post: 1305494) wrote:If this happens, I'm blaming Google.


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

PostPosted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:10 pm
by 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.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:52 am
by That Dude
Esoteric (post: 1305517) wrote: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.

PostPosted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:43 am
by Esoteric
So...you'd be less afraid of your imminent doom if you saw it coming? :P

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.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:34 pm
by 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!

PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:39 pm
by 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]

PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 5:50 pm
by 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.

PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:12 am
by 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

PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:30 pm
by Lady Kenshin
Sounds cool, if a bit scary.

PostPosted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 2:43 pm
by 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]

PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:48 am
by 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.

PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:26 pm
by 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.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:01 pm
by 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 :D