[Dan Evans]

History of Nano-technology in Warfare

Nano-machines were first employed as an artillery device during siege warfare during the middle ages. These nano-machines (also called viruses or bacteria) were spread through the use of macro-machines (a dead cow) typically launched from a catapult into an enemy fortress. The cow carcass was usually filled with a nano-machine called anthrax.

Until the end of WWII nano-machines inadvertently killed more soldiers than artillery, small-arms fire, poison gas and air bombardment combined.. Self replicating micro-machines (fleas or lice) would play host to the deadly nano-machines and spread them from soldier to soldier.

During WWII the development of a nano-device called DDT neutralized the effect of the host machine and was greatly effective in reducing casualties.

The Future of Nano-technology

Nano-machines can be powered by petroleum products or virtually any ambient organic material and, in fact, oil companies use nano-machines effectively to clean oil spills. Thus nano-machines are able to continuously self-replicate in the seas or can stay dormant in the soil or air. Nano-technologists (previously called genetic engineers) believe they may be useful to attack nuclear submarines.

"We presently just don't know how" explained one researcher. "But if you give us enough money I'm sure we'll think of something. The hard part is already done. We just need to work out the details".

[tortoise]

Your "nanotechnology" (i.e. biology) has extremely limited and brittle capabilities. Machine phase nanotech does not have these limits, and quite frankly, will eventually eat the little biological critters alive at their own game.

If you think biology is comparable to what these other people are talking about, you don't understand the subject matter. Apples and oranges, really.