I can see it now: just get the enemy to breathe in a cloud of nanobots, or have the bots enter their body through an open cut that they make, and the enemy’s body is yours: no violence needed.

We live in a terrifying time because there’s just no way to dodge this sort of stuff unless you have the EMP tech, since a Hazmat suit is unsustainable to don long-term.

EDIT: No, I didn’t watch anything! I’ve been reading about how nanobots are currently being used in the medical field to clear plaque from arteries, so I have simply been chugging with that train of thought in a more nefarious direction…

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      44 minutes ago

      You kinda can’t because that plot point hasn’t been revealed yet. That said, if you know that’s what’s going on, it makes the show’s first mystery trivial! I read the books after the first season, and I loved picking that mystery apart. I think after the first episode we had enough to speculate and go back and forth on theories. Of course now you can binge watch the whole season, so you aren’t forced to take all that time to think about it.

      spoiler

      The show is called Silo, on Apple TV. You don’t need an Apple device to watch it; Apple TV is on most smart TV app stores. You can also usually get a free trial. The show is 2 seasons so far. Again, nothing about the show says nanobots (yet). And be warned, the books were very thin on details, but the author is an executive producer on the show, and he’s adding a ton of stuff (and changing others). So they might change it, but you can read the books if you like the concept.

      So the back story is, humans killed each other with nanobots rather than nukes, and, much like the world of Fallout, they live in underground bunkers called silos. And also like Fallout (more so the games), some of the silos run experiments. Some social, some scientific. They have a ton of strange rules, knowledge is forbidden, all that good stuff.

      The mystery I mentioned was about the first person on in the series sent outside “to clean.” The question was whether what he saw on the visor real or not. Once you know they’re gassed with the nanobots as soon as they step outside (there is zero radiation out there), that explains the show’s first mystery. “But he’s in a suit,” you think. That gets answered by the end of the first season.

      Hope you can still enjoy it!

      • Prathas@lemmy.zipOP
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        13 minutes ago

        Thanks, that’s fine. I don’t think it’ll be a problem at all, since I read the entire plot summary to The Substance and was still floored upon watching it (though apparently some of the wording in the article was confusing so I didn’t even understand the whole plot lol).