Borg Nanobots! You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-xenobots-worlds-first-living-000809015.html Scientists say xenobots, world's first living robots, can reproduce Scientists who created xenobots, the world's first living robots, say the life forms are "the first-ever, self-replicating living robots." The tiny organisms were originally unveiled in 2020. The robots were assembled from heart and skin stem cells belonging to the African clawed frog. They can move independently for about a week before running out of energy, are self-healing and break down naturally. . . Are YOU afraid yet? Moi Across an immense, unguarded, ethereal border, Canadians, cool and unsympathetic, regard our America with envious eyes and slowly and surely draw their plans against us.
for a long time there were microbes to break down dead trees, eventually nature created them, same will be true of plastics I am sure what will man add to the system
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They move indepently ...with what purpose? I mean, where do they go and what do they do when they get there? They 'run out of energy after a week' so they're not moving to eat...
. While interesting, the claims also are a bit of an overstatement; they really don't self-replicate. They are designed so that, if you put them in an environment full of stem cells from the same organism from which they came (a frog), they will move through the cells and, because of their shape, the stem cells will essentially get caught into a recess in the, "robot." While they are in there, stem cells will do what stem cells are known for doing: they will turn themselves into the type of cell that they are situated amongst. But because this robot is a combination of two different types of cells, the stem cells will form the same, two-cell structure. So it is really just the stem cells MIMICKING the artificial cell construction, not the robot actually reproducing. Again, this only happens in an artificial environment full of stem cells. Individually, these robots reproduce more slowly, I'm sure, than a scientist could create the same construction. But, scaled up with an ever-increasing "robot," population, given sufficient available stem cells, this could be an efficient manner of biological construction. It is not clear to me as yet, though, how this would be advantageously applied, as is.
yeah, it's early stages for sure self replicating nanobots are what scare me probably start off as a way to get rid of waste, then come the unintended consequences
So you don't think their first application will be medical? Some in the medical community's avant garde, are already talking about the possibilities; as for our environmental waste needs, there are already bacteria that can serve, or be adapted to, those requirements. As for the proposed, inner computer "doctors," I am very skeptical, and would certainly not be among the first to try them out. But, used intelligently, organic nanotechnology could be an amazing boon to human medical treatment. This leads to an interesting question. Let's say you headed the lab that pioneered a technique that would allow human beings to drastically increase their life spans, even be essentially immortal, barring any serious accidents. Would you make your findings known? Why not, you may ask. Well, it would be safe to presume that initially, and possibly for a very long time, this process/these treatments, would be exorbitantly expensive. So it would only be available to those who were already the richest and most powerful people. And extending their lives, would only give them greater opportunity to expand their wealth, and extend their power. Would this not portend ominous consequences, in a world of one very small but powerful class of immortals, ruling over a world of the drastically poorer, and shorter-lived? From another perspective, consider those who could not afford the treatments but who knew, with only enough money, they could essentially cheat death. Would this not predictably cause people to make far more ethical compromises than they already do, for wealth, excusing it with vague promises to their God or their conscience, that they would make up for the wrongs they needed to commit, in order to attain immortality, with all the future "good works," they would do?
