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Originally Posted by Freethinker
The other day I had a sci-fi moment. Perhaps a good story line, although it's been done before, but not at quite the same level. We've had Sci-fi stories involving some "seed" or organic molecule that travels thru space, lands on a plant (such as earth) and takes over.
What if instead of an organic molecule, we developed nano technology? If we made a singular nano machine that when it comes in contact with the needed resources, slowely uses the resources to build larger machines? A cross between Virtuosity and It Came from Outer Space?
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For a while I've been thinking about something similar, that is if we found a new organism that was very different from what we know, would we be able to tell if it was life or a designed nano population? But then again, "life" is whatever we decide to define as life, isn't it?
Anyway, I like your idea. Maybe we could construct certain selfreplicating nanomachines that could terraform planets "quickly" or "morph" an asteroid into a radiotelescope... we could form the solar system as we wish.
