"Bryan Derksen" <bryan.derksen@shaw-spamguard.ca> wrote

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Oh, and self-replicating robots would present the exact same problem,
Fermi-wise, if you do have machines that good. Personally, I suspect
that that's what we'll ultimately send out to colonze the galaxy in
real life - not humans, but the machines descended from them.

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You obviously haven't read Greg Bear's "Forge Of God" & "Anvil Of Stars" -
sending out self replicating Von Neumann machines to 'colonize' the galaxy
might be viewed as a hostile act by the rest of the galaxy's occupants..!

Ciao...

[UK]_Nick...
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