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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (285369)	4/26/2004 8:54:46 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

zeus, Shoot, we'd better nuke 'em all before they leapfrog our technology. <G>

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (285369)	4/26/2004 9:11:37 AM
From: zonder	Respond to of 436258

WTH is Goo? "Grey goo". One of the paranoid doomsday scenarios of how our world might be in deep... uh... "goo" one day. It goes like this: Us humans produce self-assembling tiny robots (nanobots) which then go on to produce billions of replicas of themselves. Everything gets covered in this grey goo. Life as we know it ends. There was a good article written by Bill Joy (coofounder of Sun Microsystems, and its chief scientist when he wrote this) in Wired that caused a lot of controversy in the year 2000, where he explained quite a bit how and why grey goo could be a serious threat: wired.com