> You say nanobes aren't life, but then you say you don't know? Pick one. No, ben_w said that they “aren’t ‘determined to have life’”. That’s a very different

> You say nanobes aren't life, but then you say you don't know? Pick one. No, ben_w said that they “aren’t ‘determined to have life’”. That’s a very different statement. But I’ll go out and say it: they aren’t life. Nobody is talking about nanobes any more. There is no research on nanobes in the life sciences. This is not a hyperbole, I mean that the number of articles published on nanobes in over two decades is literally zero. No single lab in the whole world is researching them. The last scientific publication on the topic, from 2001, was a review concluding that there’s nothing to it. They were an embarrassing mistake that briefly made headlines.