Gray Goo!

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LordShard

Gray Goo!

Postby LordShard » 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

Keekanoo

Postby Keekanoo » Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:55 pm

That's a fantastic site, Shard, thanks.

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Postby DocTrebor » Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:29 pm

I feel smarter

LordShard

Postby LordShard » Mon Jul 26, 2004 2:55 pm

Your welcome. :)

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