| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (blasto,)
There are already nanobots on the loose... actually nanobots should be called nano-cyborgs since so far they have all been genectically engineered single celled organisms.
Probably the most used nanobots today are these little bacteria that have been developed to eat away oil spills off the surface of the ocean.. scientists just hope that none of the bazzilions of them will mutate into something sinister and just all die away like they are supposed to once the oil has been consumed.
What if just one of those cells of bacteria made its way into the earth's crust through a vent or something? There would be an underground explosion of bacteria eating away the last of our resource. Hmm, actually that might be a good thing, who knows?
Others though are designed to actually move or destroy a molecule out of an structure, to turn that particular substance into something different or change its properties. But they are messing with living organisms, stuff that can easily mutate once turned loose.
Murphy's law says that eventually there will be a catastophy...<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
There is always a good and bad side to things, depends which side outweighs the other. If there was a massive oil spill, which could potentially (and usually do) damage the wildlife of hundreds of miles worth of coastline...I think using such GM bacterium is worth the risk. |