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On Thu, 5/15/14, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML]ChemistryQuestion
 To: tml@simplelists.com, "Tim" <tim@little-possums.net>
 Date: Thursday, May 15, 2014, 11:20 PM

 On Thu, May 15, 2014 at
 3:43 AM, Tim <tim@little-possums.net>
 wrote:

 That's one reason why I don't
 fear a "grey goo" scenario where

 self-replicating nanomachines eat everything: most stuff is
 just too

 damn useless to be worth the difficulty of processing it.

 That assumes the grey goo is after
 minerals.
 It's easy for me to imagine biological
 nanotech which starts reproducing expotentially, converting
 bodily components it was supposed to ignore into interations
 of itself. Because we've already got that: it's
 called cancer.

 --
 Richard Aiken