Since viruses aren't really classified as alive, are they nanobots? Really, think about it for a second. Look at the virus...
Does that not look like a machine? Or a robot? Most definitions of life would make the virus "not alive". But if the definition of life is simply the ability to replicate, then technically, we humans will be able to create life. Nanotechnology has a specific goal of creating nano machines which are self-replicating. In that case, wouldn't we be creating life according to the definition that life is anything that can reproduce? I'm merely speculating, but I'm thinking viruses are from aliens or something. I mean really, if they are self-replicating machines, WTF made them in the first place? But before I even entertain that thought, I'm going to see what the evolution theory says about viruses genesis.
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Dec-29-2008 06:05
Alex
Suck a cheetah's dick
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: Montreal
The government is doing it to control the population, luckily they haven't fooled you. Please join our rebellion, we are planning a coup in the next few days... The government MUST be stopped before they replace the entire population with miniature Wall-E windup toys.
Krypton.... lol. Are you serious? Did you just watch The Matrix or something? I'm slightly worried that the conspiracy theorists are getting to you.
Dec-29-2008 06:11
Krypton
83.798 g/6.022x10^23
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Texas
lol, I'm just making a simple observation. Viruses look like machines. Nanobots.
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Dec-29-2008 06:16
Shakka
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Feb 2003
Location:
That's a diagram, not an actual photograph. Could you not make the same argument about every single molecular representation?
But hey, if we are living in the Matrix, then why not?! Our doctors must know something they're not telling us.
Dec-29-2008 12:55
Zild
Ten City
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: San Antonio, US : TXTA #156
Benzene doesn't look like a nanobot, but that virus does.
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I've never been able to eat a whole baby.
Kill the women. Eat the children.
It's just one of those days where you want to bend over everyone you know and kiss their ass goodbye with a big sideways boot.
Maybe you're right. Perhaps I shall try out my newfound Kung Fu skillz.
Perhaps spiders are nanobots (macrobots?) too?
Dec-29-2008 15:24
Fir3start3r
Armin Acolyte
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
It's frakin' creepy is what it is...
Plus, I don't have a tin foil hat with that may layers for this thread...
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The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."
Dec-29-2008 18:27
LazFX
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: 9th Circle
Virus are living things, biological that is.
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague .....
Dec-29-2008 18:31
Fir3start3r
Armin Acolyte
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Toronto, ON, Canada
quote:
Originally posted by LazFX
Virus are living things, biological that is.
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague .....
I have to admit, that was probaby the best dialogue in the whole series...
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"...End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path...one that we all must take.
The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."
Dec-29-2008 18:37
NeoPhono
�bermensch
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: In Orbit
This thread...
Not really...
Dec-29-2008 19:33
LazFX
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: 9th Circle
quote:
Originally posted by Fir3start3r
I have to admit, that was probaby the best dialogue in the whole series...