Samael [Samael@dial.pipex.com] wrote:
The ones on the edge will also be happily dismantling each other, and being
dismantled by the ones in the middle. They also have to spend time making
more grey goo nanobots to form the new outer shell, while they're being
dismantled by the other nanobots, and while other nanobots are busily
dismantling the new nanobots that they're trying to build. It's far from
an easy task; nanobot reproduction will be hard enough in a stable
environment, let alone when other hostile nanobots are dismantling what
you're building as you're building it.
This whole idea seems an obvious non-starter to me as soon as you think
about these problems.
>Oh, and it doesn't matter if they are wasting energy attacking each other,
>as only ones surrounded by other grey goo would be spending more energy
>dissassembling each other, the ones on the edge would be happily digesting
>more non-grey-goo.
Mark