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In essense the nanites are a hive mind intellegence where each individual nanite is dumb but together they can solve complex problems and preform complex tasks (imagine if all the cells in a human brain could moved autonomously from one another but still work together).

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Reply: When you said 'nanite' (?) were you referring to 'nanothermite' ..

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It was Robot Chicken before that was a nanite egg.

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He said, Data extracted from the nanite swarm indicates that its place of origin is deep in the Delta Quadrant.

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“Yet somehow, via some sort of subatomic microsensor array perhaps, the nanite is able to get readings on things that lie beyond the impenetrable boundary.”

Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010

“Since each nanite is essentially a self-contained computer, the connectors also let them link into a distributed computing network!”

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But we do know that his nanite swarm is lethal and almost unstoppable if it decides to come after you.

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He pointed at his monitor, where a nanite swarm swirled lazily in live video on-screen.

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That exact same glyph is on every nanite we examined.

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Kirk watched the rotating model of the single nanite with an amused grin.

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