From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Jan 08 1999 - 16:01:07 MST
Billy Brown writes:
> Another problem is energy supply. The gray goo is limited to organic matter
The idea of a military autoreplicator is to autoamplify by converting
organics. Anything else is just distracting bells & whistles. Whatever
is needed, will be invented by the evolution along the way.
> and solar power for energy supply, so its growth rate can't be too much
Photovoltaics means about 1 kW/m^2 peak, and there are a lot of these
m^2 out there. However, the color of the goo is grey, not green.
> faster than ordinary microorganisms. A defensive system can mass-produce
> nanobots in industrial fabricators running off the electrical power grid.
And what does electrical power grid run on? Magical fairy-dust?
Where is reconaissance, planning, production, transportation,
deployment, action analysis, all in an co-evolutionary scenario?
> Thus, the defensive system can have a far higher reproduction rate.
Non sequitur.
'gene
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