Organic Technology

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Organic Technology
Topic Started: Sep 21 2009, 06:02 PM (2,472 Views)
lamna	Sep 21 2009, 06:02 PM Post #1
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	Exactly what it says on the tin. I wonder how hard it would be to grow a house?
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Temporary	Apr 13 2010, 05:27 PM Post #46
Transhuman Posts: 2,092 Group: Members Member #167 Joined: Apr 29, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology Nationality: USA	Plants can actually go through mitosis an indefinite period of time. I don't think that limit even exists in them, unlike us. If they do, it must be much closer to the one experienced by microbe colonies. If this is the case, not hard to solve.
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lamna	Apr 13 2010, 05:39 PM Post #47
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	I don't think genes "wear down". Besides, trees can live for thousands of years no problem. But when was the last time you used a piece of technology 50 years old. Not the design but the machine itself.
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Temporary	Apr 13 2010, 05:43 PM Post #48
Transhuman Posts: 2,092 Group: Members Member #167 Joined: Apr 29, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology Nationality: USA	I beleive he's referring to the telomere.
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lamna	Apr 14 2010, 02:39 AM Post #49
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	Which could be repaired, in theory.
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Holben	Apr 14 2010, 05:45 AM Post #50
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	Well, yeah. But the genes you have as adults are at least 10% shorter than the ones you start off with- over genes wear too.
	Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."


Practically Uninformed	Apr 14 2010, 10:57 AM Post #51
Informed enough to care Posts: 1,570 Group: Members Member #274 Joined: Feb 20, 2010 Nationality: Born in DC, bred in SC, now in NJ. A partial citizen of Tartarus Favorite Quote: "Ya gotta put the soup-drinker in the flute-lips, and shake it all up!"	What should organic technology aim to perfect, anyway? It seems to have a lot of setbacks from the traditional, clunky metallic machines. What's the major edge such technology should have over our current pieces?
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lamna	Apr 14 2010, 11:59 AM Post #52
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	Indeed, plus technology moves on fast, biotech would too.
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Holben	Apr 14 2010, 12:16 PM Post #53
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	Biotech limits are more significant. You can't shield from tank shells whatever carb you're hiding behind.
	Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."


Practically Uninformed	Apr 14 2010, 02:53 PM Post #54
Informed enough to care Posts: 1,570 Group: Members Member #274 Joined: Feb 20, 2010 Nationality: Born in DC, bred in SC, now in NJ. A partial citizen of Tartarus Favorite Quote: "Ya gotta put the soup-drinker in the flute-lips, and shake it all up!"	Precisely. Where's the upside to organic technology, if any?
	You may be a king or a lil' street sweeper, but sooner or later, you'll dance with the reaper!


Pando	Apr 14 2010, 02:57 PM Post #55
Obey or I'll send you to the moon Posts: 5,648 Group: Members Member #275 Joined: Feb 24, 2010 Area of expertise: Future Evolution	They can breed, so no more factories? But then again they do have to eat, which I think outweighs electricity.



lamna	Apr 14 2010, 03:06 PM Post #56
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	Well there are some trees that can filter salt water, an interconnected forest of them would be cheaper than a desalination plant.
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Practically Uninformed	Apr 14 2010, 03:36 PM Post #57
Informed enough to care Posts: 1,570 Group: Members Member #274 Joined: Feb 20, 2010 Nationality: Born in DC, bred in SC, now in NJ. A partial citizen of Tartarus Favorite Quote: "Ya gotta put the soup-drinker in the flute-lips, and shake it all up!"	We could find a way to replicate that in some sort of structure. A bold new approach: an "organism" made of solar-powered, self-producing nanites.
	You may be a king or a lil' street sweeper, but sooner or later, you'll dance with the reaper!


lamna	Apr 14 2010, 06:33 PM Post #58
Posts: 21,140 Group: Global Mods Member #26 Joined: Jul 1, 2008 Gender: Male Nationality: British	How would that be done exactly? Nanomachines have become like 19th century electricity and 20th century radiation, people assume they can do anything.
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Practically Uninformed	Apr 14 2010, 08:25 PM Post #59
Informed enough to care Posts: 1,570 Group: Members Member #274 Joined: Feb 20, 2010 Nationality: Born in DC, bred in SC, now in NJ. A partial citizen of Tartarus Favorite Quote: "Ya gotta put the soup-drinker in the flute-lips, and shake it all up!"	The original nanites, the "builders", would start out as a series of microscopic units, with multiple "mandible" attachments and a sort of hive mind, in a suspension of whatever material the resulting "organism" will be made of (carbon, silicon, etc.). The nanites work remarkably fast, implementing readily-supplied building material as time passes, almost like "feeding" the machine as it grows. The resulting machine, constructed from millions of smaller and simpler units (each with the processing power of a calculator), would take in energy from sunlight, be "fed" a solution of its building material for occasional self-restoration, and can be as rigid or flexible as desired.
	You may be a king or a lil' street sweeper, but sooner or later, you'll dance with the reaper!


Holben	Apr 15 2010, 12:14 PM Post #60
Rumbo a la Victoria Posts: 14,335 Group: Admin Member #220 Joined: Sep 18, 2009 Area of expertise: Xenobiology	Nanite colonies aren't very dense, and have very low SA< so i would have thought larger-scale photovoltaics would be better.
	Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."


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