Nanomachines?

[vivster]

PullusPardus said:

vivster said:
At least it's somewhat based in reality.

Since competent enough nanomachines would be able to do pretty much anything in the human body that would give you a free pass on a lot of things but not everything.

They might be able to cure the cancer caused by space radiation but they can't eliminate strong enough radiation. Also FTL travel is still very much out of the question.

why do you think that? and what is exactly a strong radiation?

you have an infected organ you replace it, through nanomachines you can just basically connect the dots, your body becomes like a computer, much better than what is normally is.

also holy crap I wrote an essay without noticing up there

What I meant with "strong" was radiation that already burns you. I don't expect nanomachines to be efficient enough to counter constant burn.

Your body can't become like a computer unless it is one. We're talking about a biological body made out of flesh and organs here. The nanomachine's utility and mobility is limited by that.  Even if they have the ability to rearrange atoms they're still limited by their movement and the available atoms.

Nanomachines are great but they have their limits.

When talking about FTL travel(actually I mean close to light speed but I'm too lazy to type it out) I was using Newtonian acceleration.  No nanomachines in the world will help you to withstand acceleration force of that magnitude. I don't care much about worm holes, strings or bending dimensions. In the end they don't have anything to do with nanomachines anyway, which was the original point of the OP.