/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9933398
Yeah my hope is that the billions of tons of waste carbon in the atmosphere could be collected and re-assembled into solid structures like mirrors and solar panels

Or sequestered in other ways, but faster and more permanently than how plants do it

Perhaps there's some way to do it without the "impossible magic swarming nanomachines"

>>9837665
If the robot had the tools and the dexterity, shouldn't you be able to put an antenna on it and have an external computer or AI coordinate everything?
Since you would need some hundreds or thousands of the things to accomplish any meaningful repair work

>>9826639
My thought was what if a swarm of machines collects carbon from the air and then cycles back down through the ground, where they find the rest of the elements needed to complete construction, and then go back up and keep collecting carbon

>>8205320
>isolate all known forms of cancer and find a cure specific to each one

Something like swarms of nanobots integrated into our bodies could be a cure for most or all forms of cancer, along with many other diseases.
Bots could attack and destroy tumors, regardless of cancer type or body area.

Would it be possible for nanomachines (nanites, nanobots, whatever) to self-replicate using atmospheric carbon?

Or would this be prevented by the difficulty in separating carbon and oxygen atoms?

My dream is for vast swarms of the things to self-replicate in the atmosphere, simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas levels and converting waste carbon into usable materials

...and somehow avoiding the whole grey goo thing

Would it be possible for nanomachines (nanites, nanobots, whatever) to self-replicate using atmospheric carbon?

Or would this be prevented by the difficulty in separating carbon and oxygen molecules?

My dream is for vast swarms of the things to self-replicate in the atmosphere, simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas levels and converting waste carbon into usable materials