From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 00:11:34 MDT
At 01:01 AM 8/22/02 -0500, Barbara Lamar wrote:
>Could be the researchers consider the destruction of lab
>equipment by nanobes more like the destruction of equipment by acid than
>eating in the sense of metabolizing. Thus, you wouldn't have to worry about
>such things as airborne nanobe infection.
The alarming thing was that they *didn't have a clue*, and admitted it
gladly. It could have been the Andromeda Strain from the Deeps for all they
knew.
The program ended with the withdrawal of a big offer of funding when
venture capital dried up a while back, and I got the impression that
alternative nonbiotic explanations had emerged. Still, a fascinating
program (despite the longueurs introduced by about 20 minutes of tiresome
padding: gargoyles from seven angles, Philippa Uwins walking briskly back
and forth with her backpack and dogs, etc).
Damien Broderick
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