time that I’ve been walking, I haven’t run across a single other living soul.
Having not seen the most recent developments in Project Chimera for myself, all of this precaution seems a little unnecessary, but I suppose that if it’s anything like they say it is, we have reason to be fearful.
Project Chimera is the first stage of a technology that Allencorp has been contracted to develop for the United States military, specifically the Special Operations Taskforce. It’s not the first work we’ve done for the military, but it’s certainly the most secretive and well guarded; with all of our employees signing gag orders almost immediately after locking down the official bid for the job.
The basic premise of this project is a practical application of the nanotechnogly that I helped create here at Allencorp when I first arrived two years ago.
For those you don’t spend your lives buried in thick computer science textbooks, Nanotechnology is an exciting, and frankly horrifying, new field of robotics.
The basic premise is simple enough. Take a robot and make it smaller, then smaller, and then smaller still; until the robot itself is the size of a cell.
We are all made of building blocks that are fused together in just the right way to create the shape of a human being, billions upon billions of atoms stacked in a pile that can eventually walk and talk and grow. Some people find this method of looking at the universe as sad and lonely, breaking everything down to a scale that’s so analytical and scientific that it leaves no room for those incredible moments of magic that life is all about.
I, on the other hand, think that this is where the magic truly lies, right down here at the base level of all existence. It’s why I became a computer scientist in the first place.
Once you have robots this small, there is no telling what you can do. Stack enough cell sized nanobots in the right arrangement and you’ve got yourself a bowl of ice cream, with absolutely no difference in taste or sensation when compared to the real thing. Even living creatures are made up of cells that can be replicated with nanobot programming; a tiny insect, a playful dog, or even a human being.
When people talk about scientists going too far and playing god, this is exactly the type of thing they are talking about. It’s a dangerous game, but if we don’t harness this technology then someone else will.
Project Chimera is Allencorp’s first attempt at combining nanobots with a human’s natural biology, allowing the tiny machines to fuse with the cellular structure of a willing host through the means of a simple injection. Once this is done, the applications are endless, but we are starting simple enough.
Our first goal is to program our nanobots with the ability to change a person’s physical appearance at will.
Essentially, we’re on the verge of creating real world shape shifting.
The process is still a long ways off for human beings, but we’ve tested it on rats and already received astonishing results. In one study, the rodents were put into a tank with a portion of food located on the other side of a clear glass panel. Rats can certainly fit into small places, but the hole between the two partitions was much too small and much too high up for the rodents to fit.
After their injection, however, It only took ten minutes for the rats to shift into rail thin creatures with necks long enough to extend up to the hole. Soon after, they were able to pull themselves through to the side with the food.
It was
Having not seen the most recent developments in Project Chimera for myself, all of this precaution seems a little unnecessary, but I suppose that if it’s anything like they say it is, we have reason to be fearful.
Project Chimera is the first stage of a technology that Allencorp has been contracted to develop for the United States military, specifically the Special Operations Taskforce. It’s not the first work we’ve done for the military, but it’s certainly the most secretive and well guarded; with all of our employees signing gag orders almost immediately after locking down the official bid for the job.
The basic premise of this project is a practical application of the nanotechnogly that I helped create here at Allencorp when I first arrived two years ago.
For those you don’t spend your lives buried in thick computer science textbooks, Nanotechnology is an exciting, and frankly horrifying, new field of robotics.
The basic premise is simple enough. Take a robot and make it smaller, then smaller, and then smaller still; until the robot itself is the size of a cell.
We are all made of building blocks that are fused together in just the right way to create the shape of a human being, billions upon billions of atoms stacked in a pile that can eventually walk and talk and grow. Some people find this method of looking at the universe as sad and lonely, breaking everything down to a scale that’s so analytical and scientific that it leaves no room for those incredible moments of magic that life is all about.
I, on the other hand, think that this is where the magic truly lies, right down here at the base level of all existence. It’s why I became a computer scientist in the first place.
Once you have robots this small, there is no telling what you can do. Stack enough cell sized nanobots in the right arrangement and you’ve got yourself a bowl of ice cream, with absolutely no difference in taste or sensation when compared to the real thing. Even living creatures are made up of cells that can be replicated with nanobot programming; a tiny insect, a playful dog, or even a human being.
When people talk about scientists going too far and playing god, this is exactly the type of thing they are talking about. It’s a dangerous game, but if we don’t harness this technology then someone else will.
Project Chimera is Allencorp’s first attempt at combining nanobots with a human’s natural biology, allowing the tiny machines to fuse with the cellular structure of a willing host through the means of a simple injection. Once this is done, the applications are endless, but we are starting simple enough.
Our first goal is to program our nanobots with the ability to change a person’s physical appearance at will.
Essentially, we’re on the verge of creating real world shape shifting.
The process is still a long ways off for human beings, but we’ve tested it on rats and already received astonishing results. In one study, the rodents were put into a tank with a portion of food located on the other side of a clear glass panel. Rats can certainly fit into small places, but the hole between the two partitions was much too small and much too high up for the rodents to fit.
After their injection, however, It only took ten minutes for the rats to shift into rail thin creatures with necks long enough to extend up to the hole. Soon after, they were able to pull themselves through to the side with the food.
It was
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