now all we need is a practical application for robots too small to house a brain with current computer technology...
Nanobots Are One Step Closer
- Thread starter The_root_of_all_evil
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lol just getting nanobots to work? Nanobots have been around for about a decade, don't worry though, I control them....oh wait, worry!
OMFG NO! Stop the madness we can not validate Hideo Kojima. Other then that yes please I want nanobots.
People will probably be given nano machines at birth if not getting them from their mothers eventually and all illness shall cease and be fine with these little things performing upkeep on the human body, the possibilities are endless.
An infinite possibility for both good and evil though, weaponisation shortly after anything positive but probably vice versa.
An infinite possibility for both good and evil though, weaponisation shortly after anything positive but probably vice versa.
I praise the technology on the medical terms and aid for people. Cure cancer, aid in the imunne system, finding DVT befre it triggers and repairing danaged cells. But it really actually scares me how it could be used militarily. Especially if they use it as a direct weapon attack.
I think it's not so much that it's the energy requirements, but to teleport anything of significant size you'd need to be able to store ridiculous amounts of data about it, like a hard drive the size of a planet. That's probably hyperbole, but you get the drift.Gollon said:
Matter conversion teleportation is silly. Warping space is where it's at. Last I heard, that could be done using half the energy in the known universe. That's why they have those badass crystals in Star Trek, apparently.
About the topic, I hear there are now scalpels with edges only two atoms wide. Us being able to move atoms about with precision is only a small (heh) step away from moving the components of atoms, thereby generating periodic elements at will. It's mostly a matter of speeding up the process a few billion times. . . which probably won't happen until we have robots clever enough to design and build smaller robots and automatically replicate themselves in enormous, yet controllable numbers.
About the topic, I hear there are now scalpels with edges only two atoms wide. Us being able to move atoms about with precision is only a small (heh) step away from moving the components of atoms, thereby generating periodic elements at will. It's mostly a matter of speeding up the process a few billion times. . . which probably won't happen until we have robots clever enough to design and build smaller robots and automatically replicate themselves in enormous, yet controllable numbers.
So you're saying that we're not too far from being able to do deathmatches in real life? Technological advancement is awesome!zacaron said:
All we need now is a government that controls all the nanobots, a way to open intergalactic portals, and phaser guns. Then we'll be all set!
Good book. Bit of a weird ending though...The_root_of_all_evil said:
I'm not too sure I want Metroids in my blood.fullmetalangel said:
On Topic, if they were to be used as weapons, how would they discriminate between friend and foe? What would be their limits? How would we stop swarms of Nanobots wiping the planet clean? There's going to have to be a lot of thought on how they're going to do these things.
There's several things to consider here.
First is that movement has only just been possible, and swimming is not the best way to travel, as anyone who has seen Fantastic Voyage can understand.
Secondly, the bots haven't been trialled in liquid, so there's overcoming flow, huge platelets, the body's immune system, watertightness...
Thirdly, is the power supply. At the moment these bots are powered through an Electric field, which has major problems when introduced to the Human nervous system.
Fourthly, they're not only blind but stupid. They do what they're told, no matter if they can or should.
Fifthly, there's enormous pressure inside the body, and with platelets, haemoglobin slams, the heart's pump; one wrong move will leave a dying nanobot inside your blood stream. The white cells can probably deal with it, but a "crazed" bot could do a lot of damage.
It's a step forward alright, but there's still a long way to go, and a need to get much smaller.
Saying that though, at
First is that movement has only just been possible, and swimming is not the best way to travel, as anyone who has seen Fantastic Voyage can understand.
Secondly, the bots haven't been trialled in liquid, so there's overcoming flow, huge platelets, the body's immune system, watertightness...
Thirdly, is the power supply. At the moment these bots are powered through an Electric field, which has major problems when introduced to the Human nervous system.
Fourthly, they're not only blind but stupid. They do what they're told, no matter if they can or should.
Fifthly, there's enormous pressure inside the body, and with platelets, haemoglobin slams, the heart's pump; one wrong move will leave a dying nanobot inside your blood stream. The white cells can probably deal with it, but a "crazed" bot could do a lot of damage.
It's a step forward alright, but there's still a long way to go, and a need to get much smaller.
Saying that though, at