Talk:Grey goo

Exitmundi

This site explains the grey goo "problem" but doesn't really attempt to debunk it. Remove it or add a health warning? Totnesmartin 09:42, 28 February 2009 (EST)

I believe the best alternative would be to add a sentence clarifying that Exit Mundi is mainly for entertainment purposes, along with actual information. I've read the grey goo article on Exit Mundi, along with almost everything else on that site. Usually, they explain the doomsday scenario, then once they've made you all paranoid, they go on to explain why it's unlikely or downright impossible, or really far in the future. It is definitely not a resource one would want to cite in a serious research paper. But I think this link is good, due to the fact that Exit Mundi is a really fun site to explore and I think anyone who clicks on the link will find it difficult not to go beyond just the grey goo article. YB ^indeed! 15:42, 1 March 2009 (EST)

Drexler

We mock the man in the nanotech article, but not here?--User:Brxbrx/sig 22:12, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

The one in the nanotech article is a robot double. Sophie^Wilder 15:26, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

A fact about Tasty Planet

I am a TP 1 and 2 player (yes, it has a sequel, and may have a second) and I can tell you something fnny about the goo: It is not grey goo"! Yep, cause the goo happily muches on bacteriae, mice, dogs, peoples, dinausors and planets. Wait... Did I say planets? I did! The grey goo eats the to the core. How possible? Is there any biosphere in Earth's core? Nope! I'd think the grey goo is more like a strangelet. You know, this ball of strange quarks that replicates...

Made some additions on David's request

Feel free to help making the points clear. TL;DR; of my angle: eating random shit is a lot, lot, lot more difficult than mere self replication. The human engineered nanotech that can barely eat a couple types of grass (while being extremely susceptible to a bazillion poisons that are utterly harmless for any living being) is roughly the same level of (imaginary) technology as mega powerful nanotech that is industrially produced in a special vat on some bulk purified feed and then sent to end use, powered by a laser, microwave, or the like, and (given very high power input) very rapidly does dramatic cool things. Dmytry (talk) 06:17, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Whats up with nuke addition to the article.

That sounds like giving far too much credit to nanotech, that nukes would be needed for cleaning it up. Also surface area to volume ratio is irrelevant when it comes to getting nuked. It's relevant though to that nanotech can't use hot processes (e.g. melt steel). Dmytry (talk) 17:41, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Roko's basilisk

The grey goo encounters 'the computers where Roko's basilisk is centred' - what happens next? Anna Livia (talk) 14:14, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Corresponding development in goo control methods

"[...]with corresponding development in goo control methods."

Fascinating assumption. Because we scientists have been so great with that when introducing non-native species and then introducing other non-native species to combat the previous ones, right? Or when we sued farmers for growing crops that we accidentally pollinated with our patented GMO crops that happened to be upwind from them?

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