"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> I think it would be nicer to live on some nice, moderately
> small vista close to your friends, while supervising the assembly
> of nanotech reefs that could serve a shelters for small fish to
> promote the repopulation of the oceans?
>
Wouldn't it better to just have your nanosystems construct perfect replicas of living fish? You could repopulate as many fish as you like. If you can master that then you can have transporters similiar to Star Trek.
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