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What would be the most perfect shaped concept micro probe.
Wouldn't it be cool if this website were capable of using everyones input with the use of some drawing program like auto CAD but more user friendly to design and develop ideas which could have as many variations as the mind can imagine in other words a big think tank now that would be utalising true internet capability.
If I were to start designing say another micro probe I would consider starting with a cylinder spiral shape with an inner hub so that wind could blow it along it could also use the motion to charge the cells, all right one might say hey what if there were a rock in the way, thats fine provided the inner hub could some how through ingenious engineering retrieve the super memory spiral outer cylindrical shaped coil by rolling it back up similar to a tape measure but much lighter, then cary on using the standard or should I say brilliant rover thats more manouverable.
I admit that I am no boffin and havent actually loooked at the chart for years. What if there are actually some other "new minerals or metals with fantastic properties" the ball game changes The question is have all the elements in the universe been discovered, well I know that you will all get that one right by just having a quick look at the periodic table, hey it keeps changing, there are even spaces left for theoretical elements and they are split up into different catorgories ...... but if one new totally enexpected type pops up could it possibly change the chart forever let alone be used in propulsion or for making new alloys.The other questionable debate about micro probes breaking down there are endless answers:
1.Could micro probes could be developed with particular organic componets that could repair themselves very much like our skin repairs a wound.
2. Could micro/nano machines be developed to repair each other or use combinations of each other to make up different machines to perform different tasks. How about a machine that could be designed to restructure in x number of components in a certain way so that it were capable of adapting. (even release specific compactable super memory folded away metalic components)
It may really sound stupid but ther was an article where these rocks about six inces square and smaller are actually blown through the desert enviroment leaving behing these strange gouge marks, so if a micro probe broke down but it still had sufficient energy to flip down two rails and some how use a solar panel as a sail, perhaps a bit feable maybe an emergency solution. Perhaps they could make use of these powerfull winds if they were robust enough release a kite and tether but that would only be a one off.
Design the micro probe to be capable of being blown into the air like a box kite.
Hey some say dreams don't come true but ideas are born.
Think of the benifits of producing economical clusters of micro rovers, that could be dispersed over large areas that could be networked together increasing the possible potential of discovery over vast areas with the help of an orbiting sattelite.
Well I suppose once new minerals or metals with fantastic properties are eventually discovered there will be an endless convoy of unmanned robots mining/processing and building. Genetically designed organic machines once developed could cary out functions for example building or chemical processing like the terraforming that now appears like a feasable idea that is just waiting to happen.
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