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Article #657Re: Engines of Creation: Nanotechnology
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1987 17:34
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1987 17:34
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In article <636@elxsi.UUCP>, merkle@beatnix.UUCP (Ralph Merkle) writes: > peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > >Even Drexler is uneasy about the "Grey Goo". > > Just destroy anything that is not identifiable as 'friend'. That's > the principal the immune system uses, and it seems to work okay most of > the time. Great job. Your grey goo detector sounds just like the sort of thing to run wild and turn you into grey goo. These tiny little machines are going to be real susceptible to radiation... so what happens when a carbon-14 in your little sliding rod state machine decays and your nanomachine "immune system" suddenly forgets that your red blood cells are "friends". -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: sci.misc Subject: Re: Engines of Creation: Nanotechnology Message-ID: <1315@sugar.UUCP> Date: 26 Dec 87 17:34:01 GMT References: <799@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <2698@drivax.UUCP> <1063@sugar.UUCP> <636@elxsi.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 16 Keywords: nanotechnology foresight drexler