From: John Marlow (johnmarrek@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 16:30:12 MST
Thanks.
john marlow
--- hal@finney.org wrote:
> John Marlow, <johnmarrek@yahoo.com>, writes
> regarding Freitas' "Ecophagy" paper:
> > I'm reading it now. The science is good,
> obviously,
> > and I'm not all the way through it, but holes
> appear
> > in the first few paragraphs. For example--the
> comment
> > that a stealth buildup would take 20 mo to
> accomplish
> > and that a more rapid buildup would be detected,
> > thereby enabling defenses to be deployed.
> >
> > Yah, right.
> >
> > WHAT defenses? The basic problem, of course, is
> that
> > you really need a nanodefense--and that you can't
> > possibly develop one until (as Drexler has pointed
> > out) the tech is already here.
>
> We critiqued this paper last spring. You can start
> with my posting at
>
http://www.lucifer.com/exi-lists/extropians.2Q00/3014.html
> and follow the
> "next in thread" links to read most of it.
>
> Hal
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