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Grey Goo is like a Horde of Alien Locusts, only replace Alien Locusts with Nanotechnology -- and instead of grass, they "eat" anything. Or, if the protagonists are lucky, just anything mineral or electronic. For some reason, most of the time these specifically were created to clean up oil spills. Can cause The End of the World as We Know It -- specifically, Type 3b or 4 on Apocalypse How. Compare Blob Monster. Examples of Grey Goo include:

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  • Grey Goo is like a Horde of Alien Locusts, only replace Alien Locusts with Nanotechnology -- and instead of grass, they "eat" anything. Or, if the protagonists are lucky, just anything mineral or electronic. For some reason, most of the time these specifically were created to clean up oil spills. Can cause The End of the World as We Know It -- specifically, Type 3b or 4 on Apocalypse How. Compare Blob Monster. Examples of Grey Goo include:
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  • Grey Goo is like a Horde of Alien Locusts, only replace Alien Locusts with Nanotechnology -- and instead of grass, they "eat" anything. Or, if the protagonists are lucky, just anything mineral or electronic. They're worse than alien locusts. Grey Goo destroys resources by turning them into more grey goo -- more Nanomachines. It's The Virus for nonliving things -- though it may be able to take down living things as well, and likely will turn them into nonliving things if they're in the wrong place. In theory, you can end up with a planetary body made of nothing but grey goo. Physical laws regarding energy, thermodynamics and the like stand in the way, but even a partial success in this case is likely to suck for everyone involved. The color is conventional. Other colors of goo that work the same way are just as bad. Red Goo or Black Goo are intentionally released nanoweapons that do the same thing, and may or may not have an off switch, which may or may not work in any case. Green Goo doesn't disassemble everything, but just kills living things, or renders them infertile. Blue Goo is a defensive "antibody" developed to fight back against another scenario; if there's a nanobattle inside your body, the waste heat might cook you to death anyway. Golden Goo is a specific grey goo variant, where nanomachines designed to pull gold from seawater disrupt the ocean ecosystem, or less probably, dry up the oceans. Pink goo are people. No, not like that but it is the cause of it. For some reason, most of the time these specifically were created to clean up oil spills. Can cause The End of the World as We Know It -- specifically, Type 3b or 4 on Apocalypse How. Compare Blob Monster. Examples of Grey Goo include:
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