I should also point out, in all fairness, that colonizing the galaxy with autonomous self-replicating robots is a pretty simple task, so the fact that SamuelA can do it is not as much of a technological tour de force as it might seem. All you have to do is build one autonomous self-replicating robot, and send it off into space, and Bob’s your uncle. That’s it. The exponentially expanding legion of robots do all the rest.
And SamuelA knows exactly how to build one. We have the technology today to do it, and SamuelA has the know-how, as he has frequently (almost obsessively, in fact) informed us. So galactic colonization is upon us. The only mystery is why SamuelA hasn’t done it. And the only plausible explanation I can venture is that his Mom won’t let him.
But we’re going to have to rethink this if the Earth is ever threatened by an asteroid. We can’t leave this problem to scientists and engineers who obviously don’t understand how momentum works. We’re going to need SamuelA, and someone is going to have to get to his Mom to make it happen.
Actually, given everything above, the solution is pretty simple… send your one Von Neumann probe to the asteroid to make copies of itself out of the raw material… two birds, one stone.
We could convert the asteroid to millions of copies if John von Neumann. Imagine the problems they could then solve! Of course errors would accumulate in the code leading some of the nanobots to produce copies of John Bon Jovi, and the world would be at risk of a new plague of hair bands.
Brilliant! The self-replicating nanobots munch on the asteroid, self-replicating with furious abandon and humping like rabbits in heat, until there’s nothing left of it. Then they all jet off to colonize distant parts of the galaxy, leaving nothing behind but empty space and a bit of nanobot poop.
This is such a simple and efficient means of dealing with an earth-bound asteroid that I’m sure that SamuelA has already thought of it. In fact it sounds exactly like one of his schemes. That’s why SamuelA’s head is shaped like a mutant rutabaga – that great bulge at the back holds all the extra brain matter that lets him come up with this stuff, incorporating the physics of momentum conservation that is unknown to ordinary rocket scientists. They are only PhDs from places like MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics, whereas SamuelA actually went to high school (maybe), so he is a man to be reckoned with: according to his own estimation he knows what he is talking about.
Yeah, I saw the tungsten reference in that thread, but I was afraid to ask what the hell it meant for fear he would explain and then my brains would melt out my ears.
We need to get SamuelA and that guy who did thought experiments on going faster than light into the same thread. Add some nanobots, a shaped nuclear charge, and some self-replicating solar panels, and then you got a thread.
Is that the guy who wanted to do some sort of experiment with spinning discs? I think that thread was before my time here, but I’ve read it in the archives.
The only man I would trust to tell me about string theory is Brian May, PhD. He has both bases covered: A PhD in Astrophysics, and a Rhapsody Bohemian.
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Scaramouche scaramouche SamuelA loves his fandango!
SamuelA is a twit. In his latest thread, he’d like to know whether those who dare to question him have actually gone to college, or passed classes while there. Yes, you’ve busted us. We’re not worthy, you mouth-breathing trogolodyte.
