Re: Quibbling
So long as its a controllable type of new peril, I'm in. How about a nanotech "grey goo" that can be programmed to consume all life within the London SW1 postcode, and then stop at the boundary?
Don't tell anybody.. but I think there may be goo-brewers operating inside W1. Well, inside the DFRL at the Royal Institution. Which makes that a bit of an inside job as far as the patrons go. Or risky if the goo escapes because it could find a rich source of metallic food to replicate with inside the Tube. Which could be a plot, or one of those pub conversations along the lines of how long it'd take something <15nm to eat an elephant. And given quantum effects at nanoscale, it makes them strange bedfellows and keeping them close together would make it easier to keep an eye on them.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
