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Biology has a pretty limited set of building blocks to work with. Drexler specifically wanted assemblers that could work with aluminum and that could do some e
by philipswood 4y ago
Biology has a pretty limited set of building blocks to work with.
Drexler specifically wanted assemblers that could work with aluminum and that could do some extra stuff with carbon that biology can't do.
- api 4y ago> Biology has a pretty limited set of building blocks to work with. Not that small: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Periodic-representations-of-the-elements-A-Conventional-table-with-linear-columns-and_fig3_8882353 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Periodic-representations... Proteins can bind and use all kinds of other elements and the combinatorial space is enormous.