[ExI] koag moment

[jameschoate at austin.rr.com]

I think you missed the most obvious solution, make the mitochondria the nanobots. After all they are nothing more than ingested cells that built up a symbiotic relationship (Lynn Margulis).  Some of the recent work with artificial DNA looks to be quite promising along this line.

---- spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote: 

> Actually I overlooked the obvious.  Nanobots would consist primarily of
> carbon I would think, and a few other minerals, in which case the obvious
> source of materials no longer needed by the biological body would be
> excrement.  That material would even come with embedded bacteria, which
> contain mitochondria, which could perhaps be used by the nanobots as a
> temporary power source until the KOAG moment.  

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