Thread:Krayfish/@comment-5135903-20131003152926

Do we have a page on nanotechnology?

Often in GC I've realised the huge potential of nanotechnology, and how easily any civilization with access to advanced nanotechnology (if human technological development is anything to go by, any interstellar civilization) could become seriously overpowered, while still claiming to stay within the constraints of the laws of physics.

If we don't have a nanotechnology page, I'd like to make one. In it I can outline the great potential, as well as the contraints, that science places on nanorobots, especially in terms of the manipulation of matter. Interestingly, there are many low-tech means that can be employed to counter nanotechnology-based weapons, which is good news for any low-tech civilizations on GC that are facing the nanotechnological weapons of a much more advanced civilization. 