Nano-swarms To Go To Mars

GwahirGwahir Join Date: 2002-04-24 Member: 513Members, Constellation
edited March 2005 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">in 30 years</div> <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Roland Piquepaille writes "NASA is testing a shape-shifting robot called 'TETwalker' for tetrahedral walker, because it looks like a flexible pyramid. It has been tested in the lab and at the McMurdo station in Antarctica to test it under conditions more like those on Mars. Now, it is on the way to be -- really -- miniaturized by using micro- and nano-electro-mechanical systems. These robots will eventually join together to form '<a href='http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/ants.html' target='_blank'>autonomous nanotechnology swarms</a>' (ANTS). When it's done, in about thirty years, these nanotech swarms will 'alter their shape to flow over rocky terrain or to create useful structures like communications antennae and solar sails.' So in 2034, nanotechnology will land on Mars. Read more for <a href='http://www.primidi.com/2005/03/30.html' target='_blank'>other details and references</a> about the TETwalker and the ANTS project."<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

the ANT overlords will return and kill us all!


Or perhaps just tell use interesting things
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  • CondizzleCondizzle Join Date: 2004-10-05 Member: 32107Members
    Tell me when they find bacterium, then we can put them in a box and watch them fight.
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  • TommyVercettiTommyVercetti Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13390Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    First, we'll tell them to build an IP... then an armory... then the Martians will come and spawncamp. :\
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  • UnderDOGUnderDOG Join Date: 2003-04-05 Member: 15221Members
    <a href='http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/03/30/2030207.shtml?tid=216&tid=226&tid=14' target='_blank'>http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/05/0...&tid=226&tid=14</a>

    As I am doing research in nanotechnology, this is a very awsome annoucement.
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  • CondizzleCondizzle Join Date: 2004-10-05 Member: 32107Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-TommyVercetti+Mar 30 2005, 10:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TommyVercetti @ Mar 30 2005, 10:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> First, we'll tell them to build an IP... then an armory... then the Martians will come and spawncamp. :\ <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Then they will build an obs, and we shall bacon.
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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Condizzle+Mar 30 2005, 11:01 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Condizzle @ Mar 30 2005, 11:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-TommyVercetti+Mar 30 2005, 10:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TommyVercetti @ Mar 30 2005, 10:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> First, we'll tell them to build an IP... then an armory... then the Martians will come and spawncamp. :\ <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Then they will build an obs, and we shall bacon. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    And the bacon shall be good, and enjoyed by all.
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  • SwiftspearSwiftspear Custim tital Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22097Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Cold NiTe+Mar 30 2005, 11:17 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold NiTe @ Mar 30 2005, 11:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Condizzle+Mar 30 2005, 11:01 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Condizzle @ Mar 30 2005, 11:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-TommyVercetti+Mar 30 2005, 10:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TommyVercetti @ Mar 30 2005, 10:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> First, we'll tell them to build an IP... then an armory... then the Martians will come and spawncamp. :\ <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Then they will build an obs, and we shall bacon. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    And the bacon shall be good, and enjoyed by all. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Expecially the onos. Yummy.
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  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Condizzle+Mar 31 2005, 03:43 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Condizzle @ Mar 31 2005, 03:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Tell me when they find bacterium, then we can put them in a box and watch them fight. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You know as soon as bacterium is found, America will unveil their plans for a new space fighting team known as the TSA.
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  • pardzhpardzh Join Date: 2002-10-25 Member: 1601Members
    Yikes. Anyone ever read Prey by Michael Crichton?
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  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    Yep, and thats what I thought immediatly.

    Although, didn't bacterium kill off the nano-thingys?
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  • RellixRellix Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13572Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin-Thaldarin+Mar 31 2005, 08:24 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thaldarin @ Mar 31 2005, 08:24 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Condizzle+Mar 31 2005, 03:43 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Condizzle @ Mar 31 2005, 03:43 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Tell me when they find bacterium, then we can put them in a box and watch them fight. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You know as soon as bacterium is found, America will unveil their plans for a new space fighting team known as the TSA. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    No, they will wait till it has taken hold on the USA and decide once its far too late to save most lifes.

    The ESA will spend years developing a state of the art space fighting team only to have it crash and lose all signal.
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  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    I can't wait till some government agency decides to design it to attack certain genome types...


    >_>
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