Re: Why A Coyote Revolution?

"Penn" <pennarin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Derek Lyons wrote:
With the caveat that such a machine as proposed by Zubrin has never
been tested at any significant scale.

Of course, of course. Silly of me. I shall immediately post on the more
appropriate rec.arts.sf.written instead of this science-based
newsgro...waaait a minute....

;)

True, never tested, its still in the same realm of the likely possible
as Neumann's self-replicating machines, albeit a lot simpler to
engineer I bet, and possible in a near future instead of a far one
(building a single self-replicating machine, say the size of a cat, or
even of a car, ought to take some mighty engineering).

True - and I really didn't mean to imply otherwise. It's just that
with Zubrin and technology, you have to check carefully behind the
curtains. He tends to speak and write as if technologies and systems
that haven't really been tested (or like the NSWR, even mathematically
modeled), are just a few brief and simple steps from being ready for
operational deployment to the far flung corners of the Solar System.

D.
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-Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings.
Oct 5th, 2004 JDL
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