Gray Goo!

Sun Jul 25, 2004 12:31 am

http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0142.html

Scary stuff.

The smallest plausible biovorous nanoreplicator has a molecular weight of ~1 gigadalton and a minimum replication time of perhaps ~100 seconds, in theory permitting global ecophagy to be completed in as few as ~10 4 seconds.

That is 10 to the 4th power.

10x10x10x10=2.7Hours

Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:55 pm

That's a fantastic site, Shard, thanks.

Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:29 pm

I feel smarter

Mon Jul 26, 2004 2:55 pm

Your welcome.