Actually, it's usually called bacteria. And, well, aside from deliberate weaponization, unlikely to be any more dangerous than the stuff that's already out there.

 

From: tml-manager@simplelists.com [mailto:tml-manager@simplelists.com] On Behalf Of Richard Aiken
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 11:20 PM
To: tml@simplelists.com; Tim
Subject: Re: [TML]ChemistryQuestion

 

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Tim <tim@little-possums.net> wrote:

That's one reason why I don't fear a "grey goo" scenario where

self-replicating nanomachines eat everything: most stuff is just too
damn useless to be worth the difficulty of processing it.

 

That assumes the grey goo is after minerals.

 

It's easy for me to imagine biological nanotech which starts reproducing expotentially, converting bodily components it was supposed to ignore into interations of itself. Because we've already got that: it's called cancer.

 

--

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein

"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice." - Bill Cosby

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester

-----
The Traveller Mailing List
Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml
Report problems to listmom@travellercentral.com
To unsubscribe from this list please goto 
http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=dX4fOqugWifvzatD9cdaZqKWnR3h4fDW