Ok, I have no idea if this is a total BS concept or not, but it sounds awesome.
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September 9th, 2006 12:05 PM #1Administrator
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Utility Fog = Uber
Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my Uncle Jack off a horse." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse."
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September 9th, 2006 01:18 PM #2Tree Frog
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Heehee. A guy named Warren Ellis called a sect of people who made themselves into a fog of nanobots, capable of making themselves into anything - "foglets". In a comic called "Transmetropolitan" some 3 or 5 years ago. I wonder who came with the term first?
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September 9th, 2006 03:53 PM #3Guest
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How odd, I just heard of that comic yesterday.Originally posted by Brannick
Heehee. A guy named Warren Ellis called a sect of people who made themselves into a fog of nanobots, capable of making themselves into anything - "foglets". In a comic called "Transmetropolitan" some 3 or 5 years ago. I wonder who came with the term first?
I've already told my parents to stick Utility Fog on my birthday list for next year
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September 9th, 2006 08:21 PM #4Moderator
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Now imagine the surface of Mars covered completely with this stuff protecting people from the atmosphere. Water artifically induced into the climate and plants placed sufficiently to create an actual atmosphere.
Or even more close to home, Underwater cities and transportation across the Atlantic in a bubble. Maybe that invisible wall that held back the water in "The Abyss" was actually this technology in use.If violence is not your last resort, you have failed to resort to enough of it.
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September 10th, 2006 05:55 AM #5Tree Frog
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From the previews, I think this sort of concept will be the focus of the new Eureka episode on Tuesday on Scifi channel. Looking forward to seeing it
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September 10th, 2006 07:26 AM #6Bullfrog
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Just don't let some jerk install a Microsoft OS on them.
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September 10th, 2006 09:24 AM #7Fire Bellied Toad
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Or OS/2 *glances at Rosuav*
Sure, I got a secret. More 'n one. Don't seem likely I tell 'em to you now, do it? Anyone off Titan colony knows better than to talk to strangers. You're talkin' loud enough for the both of us, though, ain't ya? I've met a dozen like you. Skipped off-home early. Minor graft jobs here and there. Spent some time in the lockdown, but less than you claim. And you're, what, a petty thief with delusions standing? Sad little king of a sad little hill.
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September 10th, 2006 09:39 AM #8Bullfrog
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What I can't work out yet is where the keyboard plugs in?
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September 10th, 2006 10:18 AM #9Administrator
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I imagine the little robots coalesce into a USB port... or PS/2 port!Originally posted by Kraxe
What I can't work out yet is where the keyboard plugs in?
Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my Uncle Jack off a horse." and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse."
There is never a good time for lazy writing!
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