Comment You mean like the Grey Goo of nanotech ? (Score 1) 183

by _Eric on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:25AM (#65858859) Attached to: Are Warnings of Superintelligence 'Inevitability' Masking a Grab for Power?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... somehow turned out to be high tech stain-repulsing coatings and not much more...

Comment Sounds a lot like the clathrate gun... (Score 2) 236

by _Eric on Friday December 16, 2011 @09:29AM (#38397052) Attached to: Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes

Maybe a tipping point in global warming has just been passed...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

Comment Yes, causality just got broken! (Score 1) 1088

by _Eric on Thursday September 22, 2011 @04:02PM (#37484588) Attached to: CERN Experiment Indicates Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos

The official announcement will be only tomorrow:

http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=155620 ...and yet the news wires are already there.

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