On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 08:18:16AM -0400, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Russell Standish > > But the robot plants could not grow more robot structure > for free nor produce seeds. Or produce beautiful sweet-smelling > flowers. If they could produce more robot structure, > we ought to use them to produce more manf capabilities > (including producing more chips for free). >
All of which are irrelevant to the stated task of using sunlight to convert carbon dioxide to ocygen. Nvevertheless, self-reproducing robots exist as well, in case you're wondering. Take a look at the rep-rap project. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
