Re: Dismantle and Recreate was RE: misquote

From: Twirlip of Greymist (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 10 1996 - 14:51:51 MDT


On Sep 10, 1:24pm, Anders Sandberg wrote:
} On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Twirlip of Greymist wrote:
} > On Sep 9, 4:28am, Chris Hind wrote:
} >
} > } What if we were to assimilate all the resources of planet earth and make a
} > } molecular map of the Earth inside a virtual world so that you could let the
} > Uh, molecular map? A VR of the Earth down to the molecular level? In
} > what medium, pray tell? Molecular circuits and memory?
} No, but I don't think there is much point in doing molecular simulations
} of every voxel of the Earth's core. Most interesting stuff is just in the
} outermost 10 kilometers or so, the rest can probably be simplified very

Yes, but I wouldn't call such a thing a molecular map of the Earth.

Merry part,
 -xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-)



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