Just Because You Can...
May. 12th, 2005 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundriel...Doesn't Mean You Should.
U.S. Scientists create self-replicating robot.
Each robot consists of several 10-cm (4 inch) cubes which have identical machinery, electromagnets to attach and detach to each other and a computer program for replication. The robots can bend and pick up and stack the cubes.
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The experimental robots, which don't do anything else except make copies of themselves, are powered through contacts on the surface of the table and transfer data through their faces. They self-replicate by using additional modules placed in special "feeding locations."
The machines duplicate themselves by bending over and putting their top cube on the table. Then they bend again, pick up another cube, put it on top of the first and repeat the entire process. As the new robot begins to take shape it helps to build itself.
Don't these people watch SG-1? Replicators are *bad*.
So if the replicators meet up with some nanites we'll eventually get Cylons and the whole galaxy will be frelled.
Science-fiction has ruined my brain.
To ruin it further, Natasha and I are going to see The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy today. Finally.
U.S. Scientists create self-replicating robot.
Each robot consists of several 10-cm (4 inch) cubes which have identical machinery, electromagnets to attach and detach to each other and a computer program for replication. The robots can bend and pick up and stack the cubes.
....
The experimental robots, which don't do anything else except make copies of themselves, are powered through contacts on the surface of the table and transfer data through their faces. They self-replicate by using additional modules placed in special "feeding locations."
The machines duplicate themselves by bending over and putting their top cube on the table. Then they bend again, pick up another cube, put it on top of the first and repeat the entire process. As the new robot begins to take shape it helps to build itself.
Don't these people watch SG-1? Replicators are *bad*.
So if the replicators meet up with some nanites we'll eventually get Cylons and the whole galaxy will be frelled.
Science-fiction has ruined my brain.
To ruin it further, Natasha and I are going to see The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy today. Finally.
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Date: 2005-05-13 02:23 am (UTC)The movie is hilarious and fun. Definitely go see it if you get a chance. :)