Hi Russell Standish Thanks for that info. If you put reprap into the search window on youtube, you come up with a number of video clips. It's a stunning achievement.
So I'm wrong, at least you can emulate life. The only thing that remains for it to emulate a plant would be to have it run by solar cells, which would be possible. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 10/21/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Russell Standish Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-10-20, 17:51:36 Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Why self-organization programs cannot be alive On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 08:18:16AM -0400, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Russell Standish > > But the robot plants could not grow more robot structure > for free nor produce seeds. Or produce beautiful sweet-smelling > flowers. If they could produce more robot structure, > we ought to use them to produce more manf capabilities > (including producing more chips for free). > All of which are irrelevant to the stated task of using sunlight to convert carbon dioxide to ocygen. Nvevertheless, self-reproducing robots exist as well, in case you're wondering. Take a look at the rep-rap project. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
