In Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson talks about rival groups creating nanobots that
engage in combat, the dead bots falling from the sky. Because the bots are so
small, the resulting effect is akin to taking the cartridge from your laser
printer to a couple thousand feet in the air and shaking out t
This is a classic Dunning-Kruger idea. “We’ll fix the mess we’ve made and do it
better than nature!”.
— Barry
On 17 Jan 2025, at 15:49, Jochen Fromm wrote:
> Walmart has a patent for robotic
> beeshttps://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-robot-bees-farming-patent-2018-3The
> idea is to replace
Walmart has a patent for robotic
beeshttps://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-robot-bees-farming-patent-2018-3The
idea is to replace real bees by artificial ones if all insects have died
because of pesticides and
chemicals.https://news.mit.edu/2025/fast-agile-robotic-insect-could-someday-aid-mec
I'm putting my bets down on tardigrades as the poster child of
space-pioneer phyla:
https://www.popsci.com/tardigrades-on-the-moon-alive/
Given Elno's (nod to Glen) predilections, I wouldn't be surprised if he
didn't have a secret lab where he is cultivating strains of tardigrades
with his
