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What about Zombie Goo? This variant shows up in fiction a lot, and some zombie stuff is arguably sort of science fiction, absurd as it may be. I don't know of a goo colour name but the concept is pretty analogous and highly prevalent in Speghetti Zombie flicks, including Return of the Living Dead and Resident Evil (both where military development bred dead guys who took over the world)
Ahh, just a thought. Seems to fit in there somehow.
"The acceleration of gray goo is most likely to be geometric as most replicators will quickly exhaust available raw materials. Although the growth is not truly exponential, it is worth noting that geometric growth is fast enough to warrant concern."
This is plain wrong, since geometric growth is the same as exponential growth.
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Fine if a game exists, but we don't need to know which platforms it's available for and the difference prices for each. Blatant advert and undesirable.
Ganpati23 ( talk) 16:57, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
Which is it? Both spellings are used throughout the article, although the US "gray" is most prevalent. -- Serpinium ( talk) 20:01, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
Since the person, an advanced professional in the field, who coined the term is on record (a record referenced by this very wiki page) as wishing he never coined it, and since that this very wiki page also references documents referring to the "myth" of grey goo, and others celebrating the "burial" of the term itself - can we have a section which more seriously addresses this? Instead of quite a long article treating the concept seriously? A layman researching the term can easily read this page and go away with the idea that "grey goo" is a much more valid concept than it really is - the reverse of what Wikipedia is supposed to do. "Grey Goo" should be treated the same as other debunked, mythical ideas such as ancient astronauts or nuclear weapons causing runaway atmospheric reactions. 178.15.151.163 ( talk) 12:05, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
Maybe the Borg nanoprobes (Star Trek) and the Terraformers/Xenon (X Series) should be added? Although the latter are somewhat similar to Skynet Terminators. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.18.254.141 ( talk) 15:30, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
speculative fiction, rather than a scientific journal or paper, but GB's 1983 award-winning story (short, then novel) nails a lot of the same fears & anticipations somewhat earlier; he deserves a mention here, higher-placed than the popular culture section, for his prescience. duncanrmi ( talk) 22:31, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. The majority of editors believe the American English spelling of "gray" is most consistent with the subject's national ties (to American engineer K. Eric Drexler) and the article's cited sources. ( non-admin closure) — Newslinger talk 01:52, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
Grey goo → Gray goo – This article currently uses a rather arbitrary mix of "grey" and "gray". WP has no inherent preference for one spelling over the other, but per MOS:ARTCON we should at least be consistent within an article no matter which variety is chosen. The first spelling used in this article was "grey". However, many instances of the word are in quotes from Drexler, who (I assume, since he's American) used "gray". Standardizing on "gray" within the article would thus result in a higher degree of consistency. If consensus settles on "grey" for the title, we should instead change all instances of "gray" to "grey", except where quoting Drexler. Hairy Dude ( talk) 00:03, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
There was a move discussion in progress on Talk:Grey Goo (video game) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 03:02, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
I don't understand how this scenario is being treated even a little bit seriously by anyone. It clearly violates the second law of thermodynamics, and combines all the most implausible aspects of both The Blob and the philosopher's stone — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.121.1.13 ( talk) 23:23, 6 September 2020 (UTC)