Path: 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
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Keywords: nanotechnology foresight drexler

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".
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