Grey Goo
Grey Goo is a hypothetical future artifact, a sort of nanotechnology gone horribly wrong.
Library Data Referral Tree
Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:
- Nano Science / Nanotechnology (Nano-)
Description (Specifications)
Gray goo (...also spelled grey goo) is a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all biomass on Earth while building more of themselves, a scenario that has been called ecophagy ("eating the environment", more literally "eating the habitation").
Nanocytes or nanotechnological machines are typically built in with preprogrammed lifespan limits, keeping them from running amok... But, what if those limitations didn't work. What would happen? What if the fail safes fail?
Nantechnological Goo Variations
Variations on this term include:
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Black Goo | It is the use of nanomachines by military forces in open combat. They are often known as Disassembler Swarms and are specifically designed to break target materials into components.
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Blue Goo | It is a defensive nanotechnological systems. It is often used to denote any form of benign and protective neumann-capable technology.
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Golden Goo | It is an economic optimizer, that optimizes resource collection and processing across vast scales.
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Green Goo | They are usually thought of as an out of control biologicals or bionanotech devices.
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Grey Goo | It is an assembler nanomachine used for widescale construction and transformation of the environment.
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Pink Goo | Pink goo is a self-replicating entity with a tendency to fill up existing space.
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Red Goo | It is the use of nanomachines by terrorists or nihilists to destroy all or some segment of humanity.
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History & Background (Dossier)
There are rumnors that some Red Zone worlds on the Imperial Fringe may be former Ancients experiments gone wrong... Experiments with Grey Goo...
References & Contributors (Sources)
This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Gray_goo. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Self-replicating_machines_in_fiction. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
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- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science