Comments on: Just Another Way To Reduce Healthcare Costs.

By: RyGuy

RyGuy — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 10:08:33 +0000

Have you ever heard of “The Grey Goo Scenario”? It is the absolute worst case disaster involving nanotechnology. Nanites reproduce like a cancer, consuming everything within the local gravity well that is not too hot, (I.e., the planets entire surface to within a few meters of magma chambers and flows.), as they are unable to maintain molecular cohesion above a certain temperature. Nanites HAVE to be hardwired to have a limited life span, it is the only way to guarantee that they won’t mutate over several generations outside direct supercomputer supervision. My guess is this room does just that, but leaving it open like that is fool hearty in the extreme.

By: YingA&YangY

YingA&YangY — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:19:53 +0000

😀 I don’t know about you but I would send in the ‘vampires’ first! ….:K Don’t look at me that way! if this is Blood based, that means the vampire may either come out drunk with power….or just plain DRUNK!

By: Originaldrew

Originaldrew — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:48:32 +0000

@StupidN00bie Ok thanks, point taken.

By: hartree

hartree — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:04:01 +0000

@Sulacamas:

Poorly programmed medical Glitter: “Heavens! There’s a gaping open wound on this ones face.”

Patient: “Uh, that’s called a mouth… *mmmph!*”
😉

By: Sulucamas

Sulucamas — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:08:56 +0000

One of Glitter’s main functions seems to be to patch holes, probably by linking together to form scaffolds for new cells. In the absence of instructions, it probably does this spontaneously. The little dots in the pool are probably little (read LARGE) clusters of nanites joining together until they realize there’s no wound to heal, then dissipating. If just a few of them can heal you, I could see a pool-full of them getting overzealous, sneaking into all the cracks in your skin, self-assembling, and tearing you apart. Just a though. 🙂

By: Vulpis

Vulpis — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:24:18 +0000

Is it just me, or does the character in the bottom right left corner look a lot like Ki from General Protection Fault?

By: StupidN00bie

StupidN00bie — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:13:40 +0000

@Originaldrew
True, but many liquids are made up of individual atoms that when taken together can make up a visible fluid, IE blood.

Also, if this is un-purposed nanotech, even if you fell in, would it affect you because it does not have any instructions to execute?

By: Originaldrew

Originaldrew — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:19:50 +0000

I havn’t been on this web comic for so long and I wish a had since its so good. 🙂 p.s if this glitter is nanotech would we really be able to see it since germs and bacteria are the size of nano stuff and we can’t see them without a microscope

By: nikolai60

nikolai60 — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:11:00 +0000

This falls into the gategory of bad. Though I can think of a possible ending to this where [warning, potential spoilers, censors have been activated], of course that’s just me guessing now.

By: Sulucamas

Sulucamas — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:00:58 +0000

A cult, you say? 😉

I don’t know how Glitter works, exactly, but maybe you could absorb it rather than having it melt you. Perhaps that would make you uber powerful, Sephiroth-style. 8)