The replicators have became reality! (no joke)

[Impecca]

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18624997.100&feedId=online-news_rss20

This is actually kind of scary. Sounds exactly like the replicators.

[Ses]

haven't machines been building machines for years?

[Impecca]

Not like this. This seems exactly like the replicator style.

[starfish]

saw the same story, different place. lol. certainly gave me a shock reading the paper today. will they never learn :rolleyes:

[Vorlon-1]

Its already too late. Once its networked google will take it over. Google has become self aware. I believe it may be my fault, I googled google. I thought it was innocent at first but now I fear it may be just waiting for the right opportunity and this may very well be it :( Google is linked to everything, its over.

[teddybearnospaces]

Its already too late. Once its networked google will take it over. Google has become self aware. I believe it may be my fault, I googled google. I thought it was innocent at first but now I fear it may be just waiting for the right opportunity and this may very well be it :( Google is linked to everything, its over.

This smacks of something. nah, I"m probably just being paranoid.
~Teddy

[PG15]

Link: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6683 (pics included)

Here's some interesting parts:


A shape-shifting robot comprised of many independently moving components has been demonstrated walking, rolling and slithering for the first time.




Lund told New Scientist that the simple design of the robot's modules allow it to scale up to greater overall complexity. He has made 100 modules so far.




The coordinated movement of numerous cells enables the robot to change its overall shape and also move itself along. The cells each have a computer and communicate with each other via an infrared link. To complete tasks, the cells share information and perform computations together.



We're SO screwed! ;)

[aAnubiSs]

You didn't happen to look at the date? 10 months old :)

[PG15]

Huh, guess I should've. :o

Bit I did saw it on TV only a few minutes ago, so maybe they came up with another one.

Either way, the similarity to Replicators is pretty interesting.

[cozzerob]

doesn't look like they'll be eating metal any time soon tho... good thing too...

There is a similar research project looknig into claytronics - i'm not sure if this is the same thing, but the two are very similar...

[Qasim]

This has already been mentioned many times

[PG15]

Can't blame a noob for trying. :P

[Gargen]

Thats actaually kinda cool except for the fact that were ALL GONNA DIE if someone is stupid enough to do that

[Qasim]

Can't blame a noob for trying. :PYou are right about that but next time use the search function :)

[aironoeus]

The real world replicators are being developed right now no joke.
Look at item #25 that I posted in my thread titled, "real world science items that could be used on SG1" over in the general discussion area.
http://forum.gateworld.net/showthread.php?t=13571&page=3&pp=20
I last posted there on Aug 5th.
I moved the thread over to here (the science and tech area) starting at item #38 or something like that.

I believe that this type of stuctural strategy for "replicators" would come later on, once other more difficult tasks are "nailed down" by the machines.
So just going directly to this step that you are posting here is skipping ahead. They would still have other things to accomplish before they developed a structual strategy like this in order to survive or operate more efficiently.

[Stricken]

The Search button is your friend, use it!

[NowIWillDestroyAbydos]

10 month old news is just wrong. People should look at the publish date before they post.

[Ormith]

They're actually going to do it! We should warn them now. :P

Really though im not that surprised we're finally getting to this technological level. I can definitely see us having those little guys everywhere in 20 years.

Hope they like humans.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=532534&in_page_id=1965

[Admiral Mappalazarou]

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n185/mappalazarou/onoes.gif

[Dark lord me]

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n185/mappalazarou/onoes.gif

Run while you can and grab all the ARG's
EDIT: and Area 51 please hurry up on those PWARW's

[Acolyte Of Bli'l'ab]

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=9437299

well, damn I think they're cool :)

[Tupopoflungo]

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=9437299

well, damn I think they're cool :)


Where's a P-90 when you need one...

[Invictus]

Where's a P-90 when you need one...

:lol:

[AvatarIII]

you obviously havent seen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oSavAHf0dg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOX6W2kFiEc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m_hufTX-Ns&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sCrQnnEGuA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBfyAR77ceI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX1OA0Ko9Dw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qz2lmUlZxs&feature=related

[Jumper_One]

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=9437299

well, damn I think they're cool :)

LOL cool :P


Where's a P-90 when you need one...

:D :indeed:

[jhkplaya888]

its so slow :cameron:
if only real replicators moved that slowly

[br260454]

http://www.scifitv.com.au/Blog/2008/03/Why-Sending-A-Few-Episodes-Of-Stargatesg1-To-The-Right-People-Could-Save-The-World/

Probably already aware of this, but I came across it and the resemblance to SG All Time Baddie Number 3 is just a little to disconcerting for words. Why would anyone actually want to tempt fate and build robots that will eventually destroy us all?

Surely they can see if the Asgard can be wiped out by these creatures, they will stop their foolish meddling! Send episodes now!

[Tupopoflungo]

http://www.scifitv.com.au/Blog/2008/03/Why-Sending-A-Few-Episodes-Of-Stargatesg1-To-The-Right-People-Could-Save-The-World/

Probably already aware of this, but I came across it and the resemblance to SG All Time Baddie Number 3 is just a little to disconcerting for words. Why would anyone actually want to tempt fate and build robots that will eventually destroy us all?

Surely they can see if the Asgard can be wiped out by these creatures, they will stop their foolish meddling! Send episodes now!

Have a nice day folks, I'm off to turn my basement into an armory...

[Bray]

lmao that's great, won't be long now before our world is overrun with little evil robots :D

[stargateanubis14]

The scary part is... this technology is very easily interfacable with the microchip technology that is currently used to tap into the human nervous system, and react to a persons thoughts...

Just immagine... if there was someone with this microchip who "told" these replicators to attack...or build something dangerous,...it could be dangerous.

[Krissie678]

That's really freaky, but thanks for the link.

[naamiaiset]

lmao that's great, won't be long now before our world is overrun with little evil robots :D
evil little robots to do your bidding would be better. ;) :D

[Crazy Tom]

*goes of to build a homemade ARG;)*

[br260454]

I guess we can really nail down the 'incept date' of the future apocalypse when they start announcing these critters on the nano scale.

Although there's an interesting thought - are microscopic killer robots scarier than say, 50ft tall ones?

If they all changed shape to look (and behave) like Amanda Tapping, would we, perhaps, accept slavery?

[Zatnikitelman]

Really cool stuff. Wouldn't take a great stretch of the imagination to build a really small lego-brick-sized version of these and then guess what we got now... :D :D

[Coco Pops]

FYI... check out this new article on the Pentagon's recent experimentswith cyborg insects: Weaponizing the Pentagon's Cyborg Insects
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174912/nick_turse_the_pentagon_s_battle_/_bugs

The article reports: Right now, Pentagon researchers arealready growing insects with electronics inside them. They're creatingcyborg moths and flying beetles that can be remotely controlled. Oneday, the U.S. military may field squadrons of winged insect/machinehybrids with on-board audio, video or chemical sensors. These cyborginsects could conduct surveillance and reconnaissance missions ondistant battlefields, in far-off caves, or maybe even in cities closerto home, and transmit detailed data back to their handlers at U.S.military bases. Even more frightening is the prospect that suchcreatures could be weaponized, and the possibility, according to onescientist intimately familiar with the project, that these cyborginsects might be armed with "bio weapons."

It's entirely creepy and worth a look:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174912/nick_turse_the_pentagon_s_battle_\_bugs

[Occulus]

From its birth, science fiction has predated science fact. We all benefit from one sterling example of this every day; the idea of using a geosynchronous orbit for satellites, for example, was the brainchild of the late Arthur C. Clarke.

In that vein, I'd like to call attention to something else near and dear to the Stargate franchise. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we're rapidly approaching an age of advanced nanotechnology.

From this article (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/ip-ano042808.php):



Are nanobots on their way?
US researchers have built a proto-prototype nano assembler

The first real steps towards building a microscopic device that can construct nano machines have been taken by US researchers. Writing in the peer-reviewed publication, International Journal of Nanomanufacturing from Inderscience Publishers, researchers describe an early prototype for a nanoassembler.

In his 1986 book, The Engines of Creation, K Eric Drexler set down the long-term aim of nanotechnology - to create an assembler, a microscopic device, a robot, that could construct yet smaller devices from individual atoms and molecules.

For the last two decades, those researchers who recognized the potential have taken diminutive steps towards such a nanoassembler. Those taking the top-down approach have seen the manipulative power of the atomic force microscope (AFM), a machine that can observe and handle single atoms, as one solution. Those taking the bottom-up approach are using chemistry to build molecular machinery.

However, neither the top-down nor the bottom-up approach is yet to fulfill Drexler's prophecy of functional nanobots that can construct other machines on a scale of just a few billionths of a meter.

A very interesting article. Apparently, all those pretty pictures of nanogears and such we've been seeing over the past few years were nothing more than pictures. But, imagine if you will a CPU that can generate an internal integrated circuit on the fly, and then deconstruct it when the circuit is no longer needed. Or, better yet, imagine all the medical possibilities associated with applied nanotechnology (can anyone say, "viral cure"?)...

Oh, we're a long, long, long way from Fran, if that's even at all possible, but we're getting much much closer to real, applied nanotechnology (already being used for some purposes).

Bring it on. The singularity is near. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near)

[rlr149]

call me again when fran is available;)

[Risem]

call me again when fran is available;)

LOL I think you'll be a bit dead by then. :)

Also, it's so amazing to see mankind advance so much!

[Zatnikitelman]

Bit scary too, who knows, we may end up on the run from our own creation searching for the last tribe of...er...another habitable planet!

[Mister Oragahn]

From the article, on the Midgar documentary channel:


Hod Lipson Rodney McKay and colleagues at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York area 51, built their his self-replicating device using small mechanical building blocks that can swivel, and also attach themselves to one another using electromagnets energetic bonds.

Each 10 centimetre cube replicator block contains a microprocessor 2 million isolated keron pathways, and they are all equipped with an identical set of instructions that tell the block how to connect and swivel, depending on the way it is linked to other blocks. The instructions are designed to make the blocks work together to self-replicate.

[Coco Pops]

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18624997.100&feedId=online-news_rss20

This is actually kind of scary. Sounds exactly like the replicators.


I want one Bwawawawa....... cackle :D


But the thing is they're not actually making NEW blocks but using only the ones they have around them.... So for now we are safe. It's when they can make whole brand new blocks we might want to panic but I'd love a set of these..

[NoobTau'ri]

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18624997.100&feedId=online-news_rss20

This is actually kind of scary. Sounds exactly like the replicators.

I know that lots of people want to believe this is true, but the bottom line is that we're not technologically advanced enough to make something like the replicators. Not yet. Maybe in the next few centuries. We are not at an Alteran level of scientific advancement, people. C'mon...

[Coco Pops]

I know that lots of people want to believe this is true, but the bottom line is that we're not technologically advanced enough to make something like the replicators. Not yet. Maybe in the next few centuries. We are not at an Alteran level of scientific advancement, people. C'mon...


From the video they're only using blocks already around them so they're not really replicating but it is fun to imagine :)

I think if they could speed the movements up and package them differently they'd make great kids toys. Or even adults toys. Why can't we get stuff like this to play with .. Dammit I want automated blocks... LOL