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[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 91 points 1 year ago

It's never safe to experiment with replicators. Just ask the asgard how that turns out.

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

Turns out they were after butt fat all along

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

The Assgard.

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

Is that why the asgard were so emaciated? They modified their clones to have a complete absence of butt fat?

[-] TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

It's hard to get fat on those little sustenance cubes

[-] Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I like the yellow ones 🟨

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 year ago

Grey goo is a fun idea but doesn't really work.

Radiation would cause replication errors in the nanobots, eventually leading to speciation. Before you know it you just have an ecosystem again, with a whole food chain of butt eradicators and paperclip maximizers.

[-] bbuez@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Butt Eradicators and Paperclip Maximisers

Sorry this will be my band name now

[-] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

a fellow universal paperclip enjoyer, i see

[-] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago

Grey goo also doesn't work because it'd almost certainly use the same building blocks as life, and in a competition with life, life's probably going to be the winner. Even if it didn't, unless it's doing weird cold fusion subatomic interactions (probably impossible) to make more of whatever element it's composed of, it'll just run out of food in whatever local environment it's in.

[-] stingpie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I don't think this is necessarily true. The reason DNA is so affected by radiation is because it's malleable. It's built out of chemical building blocks that fit like Lego. Gray goo would likely be similar to extremely complex proteins which replicate like a physical version of a quine.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

IIRC the bigger issue is that the nanobots would end up just melting themselves, to avoid this they'd have to work a lot slower, probably at about the rate of a particularly fast acting bacteria.

[-] scratchee@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whilst I agree that universal consuming nanobots are a bit far fetched, I’m not sure I’m sold on the replication problem.

Life has replication errors on purpose because we’re dependent on it for mid to long term survival.

It’s easy to write program code with arbitrarily high error protection. You could make a program that will produce 1 unhandled error for every 100000 consumed universes, and it wouldn’t be particularly hard, you just need enough spare space.

Mutation and cancer are potential problems for technology, but they’re decidedly solvable problems.

Life only makes it hard because life is chaotic and complex, there’s not an error correcting code ratio we can bump from 5 to 20 and call it a day.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago
[-] Opafi@feddit.de 70 points 1 year ago

Always ass been.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago

Logic checks out. The whole universe is ass.

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 year ago
[-] alehc@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 year ago

The term gray goo was coined by nanotechnology pioneer K. Eric Drexler in his 1986 book Engines of Creation. In 2004, he stated "I wish I had never used the term 'gray goo'."

Lmao

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

He accidentally created a self-sustaining technology and released it into the wild where it replicated beyond his ability to control it.

[-] tubaruco@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

gray goo? more like gay goo amirite

[-] tubaruco@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago
[-] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

When you right you right.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Fuckin gottem

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 29 points 1 year ago

We will simply stop climate change by programming nano robots to absorb carbon atoms from everything they touch. - Elon Musk, probably.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I saw this one, Bender turns all the water into alcohol, right?

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Seems like it wouldn't really matter who he tested it on.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Nanomachines decided the most effective way to remove butt fat is to replace it with the true vacuum

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

What's it called... Kasakov cascade, or something like that?

[-] nixcamic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2024
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