From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 17:57:42 MDT
In a message dated 9/9/02 13:20:26, rms2g@virginia.edu writes:
>The same approach can be used for the seed - if only one nanoassembler
>survives and finds at least one copy of uncorrupted data, you've just bagged
>yourself a new solar system.
We don't know the minimum size for a seed. It needs a lot of data and
the ability to operate in space, which requires lots of propellant. And your
redundancy is heavily limited if (as I calculated) launches require billions
of solar energy equivalents.
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