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Grey Goo
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Voracious nanobots take over the world. Michael Blackman (Alien Dream & Space Mirrors): guitars, Tim Pringle: vocals, Tom Byrne: keyboards. Got to #2 in its category.
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Progressive, melodic, heavily orchestrated rock with celtic and space rock influences
] ');');');. I have privately released two albums, "The Last Druids" (2002) and "The Eye of the Cyclone" (2003). These are, according to one reviewer "progressive rock heavily informed by celtic music", though there are also space-rock influences in the second album. My next album "The Store of All the Worlds" will be released in March 2004. See album and concert reviews in the "Reviews" section. You may see reviews of the albums at the excellent "Aural Innovations" site: http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue22/tombyrne.html and http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue24/tombyrn2.html
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Rock • Progressive Rock
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Peak #5
Peak in subgenre #2
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Tom Byrne
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Tom Byrne
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March 26, 2005
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MP3 7.2 MB • 128 kbps • 7:51
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Grey goo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Grey goo refers, usually in a science fictional context, to a hypothetical human extinction event involving nanotechnology, in which out-of-control self-replicating robots (Von Neumann machines) consume all life on Earth while building more of themselves (a scenario known as ecophagy). In a worst-case scenario, all of the matter in the Galaxy could be turned into goo (with "goo" meaning a large mass of replicating nanomachines lacking large-scale structure, which may or may not actually appear goo-like), killing the Galaxy's residents. The disaster could result from an accidental mutation in a self-replicating nanomachine used for other purposes, or possibly from a deliberate doomsday device.
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Poppa was a nanobot apocalyptic prophet; He made himself unpopular with other engineers. In their published papers the critics liked to scoff at That wacky academic and his groundless, foolish fears. Grey goo, grey goo, grey goo, grey goo Finds carbon forms a scrumptious stew; Grey goo, grey goo, grey goo, grey goo Grey goo is coming to digest you! Soon those nifty nanobots were out in the environment Devouring deadly viruses until they disappeared. A life without disease became our natural entitlement; No microscopic pathogen would ever more be feared! Grey goo, grey goo, grey goo, grey goo Finds carbon forms a scrumptious stew; Grey goo, grey goo, grey goo, grey goo Grey goo is coming to digest you! But then those nasty nanobots decided replication Was something they should strive for as an object in itself. They’d finished all the viruses; the new eradication Was any form of carbon life - not good for human health! Grey goo, grey goo, grey goo, grey goo Finds carbon forms a scrumptious stew; Grey goo, grey goo, grey goo, grey goo Grey goo is coming to digest you!
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