Mar 11 2008Uh-Oh: Nanobots To Take Over The World
Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyah, of the National Institute of Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan, has developed a chemical "brain" capable of controlling nanobots. This "brain", soon to be known by the few remaining humans not killed in the machine uprising as "Mother Brain" will control the bots responsible for the demise of humanity. The cave dwelling survivors of the apocalypse will regularly pray to Samus Aran that she return in all her hotness and destroy said brain to make the planet safe for humans once more.
Anyway, the two nanometer "brain" is made of 17 molecules of duroquinone, each considered a "logic device" and controlled by a center "control" molecule. By switching the control molecule in the center with a scanning tunneling microscope, the other 16 are switched based on the logical instructions received. There are over four billion combinations of outcome. At least three billion being "We're all going to die", and the other billion being "We're all going to die slowly."
Chemical brain controls nanobots [bbcnews]
Thanks to Justin, who may have to step in for Samus if things get out of hand, for the tip
Reader Comments
1. damn luddites - March 11, 2008 11:34 AM
that's it. time to load up on guns, ammo and canned food. I'm heading to nebraska.
2. masterless - March 11, 2008 11:35 AM
Its gonna be ok. Even I defeated 'mother brain' in Metroid.
3. guate6 - March 11, 2008 11:57 AM
...gotta get the zombie kit, that iStraw, and some canned burgers to win this one, not to mention that 50-round-per-second machine gun that can kill trees...hopefully it does the same for machines.
On a serious note. There is a "prophecy" (or whatever they're called nowadays) made by Nostradamus that the end of the world would come with the election of a black president. Now I'm not saying Obama's going to win or anything, but there's a lot of coincidence going around...war for oil, Obama has a good chance, now this apocalyptic set of devices that will doom us all with the machine uprising. Damn!
Well if I'm going, I'm going out happy, so if any fine females want to go out happy with me, you're more than welcome to contact me.
4. damn luddites - March 11, 2008 12:07 PM
gaute6,
You consider the constant, repeated, misinterpretations of Nostradamus' prophecies to be a "serious note"? Now who should know better?
N. wrote:
Sa main derniere par Alus sanguinaire
Ne se pourra par la mer guarentir:
Entre deux fleuues craindre main militaire,
Le noir l'ireux le fera repentir.
which translates to:
His hand [that is, his power] finally through bloody Alus,
He will be unable to protect himself by sea.
Between two rivers he will fear the military hand,
The black one will make the angry one repent of it.
he didn't use the word "president".
back in 1986, people "read" the prophecy to mean Khomeini as the "black one"
people will always read whatever they want into these things so they can say the end is near!
5. Corey - March 11, 2008 12:21 PM
I can only hope that this turns out to be as easy to fix as the robot-dominated society of the future in Chrono Trigger.
6. The Moat - March 11, 2008 12:29 PM
I, for one, welcome our new robot masters!
7. guate6 - March 11, 2008 12:49 PM
Luddites: you're right, he didn't say president. My mistake, I thought he would refer to a person with power, but clearly he's talking about Tiger Woods or Dennis Rodman. Not everyone takes Nostradamus' words seriously, which I know and understand. "Serious" is a relative term though, don't worry.
8. holykemp - March 11, 2008 1:07 PM
gaute6: good try at backpedaling from the major pwnage you just received from luddites.
9. gasmonkey - March 11, 2008 3:15 PM
if there will be robot overlords, then im off to go find a giant gun, a lot of candy, a monkey, and then head to the grand canyon to live in a cave.
10. damn luddites - March 11, 2008 3:40 PM
@gasmonkey
I agree. but just one thing I don't understand - why the candy?
11. Skeps - March 11, 2008 4:55 PM
@10 are you retarded? You need the candy to feed the monkey - duh.
12. vealcutlet - March 11, 2008 6:16 PM
@11
are YOU retarded? Its not to feed the monkey at all. Its so you can melt it on your penis so the monkey will give you a blowjob!
13. Cyberwulf - March 11, 2008 11:01 PM
I have an electromagnetic pulse gun in the works. However, because of my drastically reduced budget, I have little to work with, so all I have at the moment is some forks, ducttape and an old car battery. I could mcguyver something, but I think instead I'll go to the governmetent and ask for a grant. Hm.. Maybe some stupid american beurocrat wouldn't mind givign me the money to preserve his own hide....
14. laz - March 12, 2008 8:01 AM
i always thought that nostradamus was making predictions based on american culture - now i know it's true.