RE: [SG]The Nanite Revolution

Christopher Downes-Ward wrote:
> The four tourists stopped their hover jeep next to the old scrapheap,
> each of them took out a tube of toothpaste an dropped in on the
ground,
> they then used their hand held computers to send the tubes a signal.
> The toothpaste tubes seemed to dissolve into the ground which then
> began to writhe. Slowly a suit of powered armour emerged appearing as
> if by magic. Climbing into their suits the "tourists" set off for the
> nearby spaceport.

Sorry, nanites always seem too much like magic (or super-high-tech) to
me.
When SF starts breaking the laws of physics like that, then you might as
well have Space Orks, too.