From: Gina Miller (echoz@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 21 1999 - 21:53:01 MDT
Didn't Drexler propose something like this?
Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
http://www.nanoindustries.com
>have a big sail,
>
>> built from nano- or micro-machines. Let debris rip through it,
making
>> some easily repairable holes and leaving some of the machines on
the
>> debris. When they are removed from the sail, they start digesting
the
>> debris and converting it into a small, inert sail. Using some
simple
>> navigation (make an angle of X degrees with light of this spectrum)
>> they either drift away from orbit, or merge with the sail which can
>> digest them.
>
>Anders this is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. Did you
>think of it? spike
>
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