"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Zero Powers wrote:
>
> >
> > What is the difference between a "simple" nanobot attack and a complex
> > nanobot attack?
> A small number of nanobots designed to simultaneously release a relatively
> large quantity of a highly toxic poison long after they were delivered
> to your body.
>
My idea of a complex nanobot attack is one that you can slip into a population,
such that, their brains are slowly changed to make them think that you are the
New Messiah. They get automatic endorphins when they think nice thoughts about
you. Weapons?, we don't need no stinking weapons.
Attacks based on nanotechnology will be able to take so many forms, that
defensive attempts will always lag too far in the past to provide any
confidence. Don't limit your thinking to nanobots as a new biological model.
Nanobots could form a hemispherical shell cloud 1/2 km from you (so thin you
would not detect it), that suddenly detonates and sends a collapsing pressure
wave to implode you. Something else can come at you from under the ground, or
even through the wires to your phone. The phase space of destructive
techniques is vast, and not something I should discuss here. All it takes is a
slight head start for one group with the will to try to have it all (or the
fear of another). I do not see how our traditional military policy is going to
protect us.
-Ken
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