On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Campbell Jay wrote:

> Is it the primary mission of a nanobot to build replicas of itself ?

Hopefully, not. I.e. nobody who could lay his hands on this would be 
insane enough to program such task into it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo

So, those who want to replicate a 3d printer with itself, please turn it 
off before you go to sleep :-).

Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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