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I would also think that self-replicating probes would work more like living things. He seems to be imagining that we make probes like modern machines, and then
by qnleigh 3mo ago
I would also think that self-replicating probes would work more like living things. He seems to be imagining that we make probes like modern machines, and then find ways to let them build themselves. But nature found much easier solutions.
- M95D 3mo agoLife as we know it until now has big difficulties outside goldilocks zone. It would theoretically be possible to make microbes (or fish?) that float high in Venus atmosphere, if we put money into 200 years of research, but no way life as we know it could ever break up and "eat" an asteroid.
- asdff 3mo agoNever say never https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endolith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endolith
- M95D 3mo agoVery interesting. I didn't know about them. But I still think it's impossible on an asteroid. No nitrogen, very little sunlight, wrong temperature, zero pressure, etc. They are already at their limit on Earth.