Billy Brown wrote:
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> Now, all of this is not to say that it can't be done. It just can't be done
> by diffuse, nearly-undetectable swarms of nanobots. You need macro-scale
> machines for a lot of essential roles, and macro-scale machinery is hard to
> hide.
As for hiding the macro-scale machinery you say I'll need at some point, I'll bet I can give it the same visual, radar, sonar, etc. characteristics as rock.
(This is pretty much academic; by this point in 'tech any sane person is far, far away from the Earth or any other mass not under vis control, and has a laser diligently vaporizing stray hydrogen atoms.)
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