Send In The Nanites

[Gingerbread Demon]

The cure could be worse than the disease if the nanites you programmed to say, search and destroy HIV virus cells, malfunctions, and starts searching for and destroying something else as well.

There is also the issue of getting them out of the body, so that they aren't an unhealthy variable that can go somewhere and cause trouble later on.

Nanites are just as capable of wreaking havoc on the body as fixing or maintaining it.

My worst nightmare on the subject is some crazy idiot programming a hoard to take apart anything in sight at the subatomic level, and using them as a terror weapon. Worst case scenario in my mind involves someone brilliant, but insane, working for some terrorist group, they are released, they do as they are programmed with great alacrity, and spread like a mechanical plague. How do you fight something like that? The only answer I can think of is making and programming nanites to destroy the other nanites.

They did that in the very first Cody Banks movie, and the bad guy gets a cube of ice shoved in his mouth containing these nanites and they eat him. Only we never see if they shut off as they start eating the evil guys base.. I assumed the explosions and fire killed them off.

Yeah, that is the latter, having nanites used as a terror weapon. Our poor bad guy would've felt like he was being eaten from the inside out, and would've felt every singe cut and bite that the nanites made.

A nasty way to go. Even he probably didn't deserve it.

Those nanites were non programmed and "free range" kind of, originally they were supposed to be preset to eat waste and metal like oil and scraps..

 

[JES]

They did that in the very first Cody Banks movie, and the bad guy gets a cube of ice shoved in his mouth containing these nanites and they eat him. Only we never see if they shut off as they start eating the evil guys base.. I assumed the explosions and fire killed them off.

Yeah, that is the latter, having nanites used as a terror weapon. Our poor bad guy would've felt like he was being eaten from the inside out, and would've felt every singe cut and bite that the nanites made.

A nasty way to go. Even he probably didn't deserve it.

Those nanites were non programmed and "free range" kind of, originally they were supposed to be preset to eat waste and metal like oil and scraps..

That would make them unpredictable, and even more dangerous.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Yeah, that is the latter, having nanites used as a terror weapon. Our poor bad guy would've felt like he was being eaten from the inside out, and would've felt every singe cut and bite that the nanites made.

A nasty way to go. Even he probably didn't deserve it.

Those nanites were non programmed and "free range" kind of, originally they were supposed to be preset to eat waste and metal like oil and scraps..

That would make them unpredictable, and even more dangerous.

Pretty much...

I think all the explosions and fire as the base went up killed them off.

 

[JES]

Those nanites were non programmed and "free range" kind of, originally they were supposed to be preset to eat waste and metal like oil and scraps..

That would make them unpredictable, and even more dangerous.

Pretty much...

I think all the explosions and fire as the base went up killed them off.

I really do hope so, for their sakes. If any of them survived, those un-programmed nanites could start eating anything they can get their jaws on.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

That would make them unpredictable, and even more dangerous.

Pretty much...

I think all the explosions and fire as the base went up killed them off.

I really do hope so, for their sakes. If any of them survived, those un-programmed nanites could start eating anything they can get their jaws on.

Well it's pretty safe to assume they are all dead since the producers never addressed the issue in the 2nd movie. Thankfully that is where that franchise ended too.

 

[publiusr]

The problem with independent nanites is that things are different at small scales.

Static electricity flings you off a surface, or holds you fast--like neutron star gravity
You are shelled by Brownian motion
A droplet of water is an ocean of molasses.
A dust mote is an asteroid
a dust mite is Godzilla
and heat is death.

But life, cells ae a type of nano tech--you say.

The simpler something is, the more hardy.

Radiodurans is tough, but doesn't do much.

A newly fertilized egg has to be babied into existence, in a womb--to turn into an engineer two decades later.

Put a newly fertilized egg in the soil, and it dies.

Complexity means more to go wrong.

 

[publiusr]

Some more news in the nano world
http://3dprint.com/77424/atom-precise-nanobeacon/
https://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11738

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Oh here's the nano death I was speaking of..

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFm8RKAyU_Q[/yt]

 

[JES]

^Probably better him than her. I don't think that the special effects were sufficient to show how truly gross his death would've been.

One of the first nasty effects would've likely been internal bleeding as those nanites chewed through his organs.