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#1 2004-05-28 12:46:13

MarsDog
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From: vancouver canada
Registered: 2004-03-24
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Re: Made on Mars Technology - Bootstrapping Little Robot to Big Robot

Martian manufacturing enables large projects;
Extending Zurbin's idea of making rocket fuel on Mars to
industrial items, before permanent settlement is started.
Robots could manufacture steel beams, glass and heavy parts for more robots.

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#2 2004-05-28 17:50:29

dicktice
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Re: Made on Mars Technology - Bootstrapping Little Robot to Big Robot

Not autonomous robots: Too advanced even to be considered seriously for decades, and remote-presence control at the distances to-and-from Mars not possible. Some compromise between the two, where virtual reality sequences are run, on Earth, before initiating them on Mars: from minutes-long exploratory probings, to sol-long repetitious operations within already-explored confines. Entire habitats could be constructed that way, prior to our arrival, based upon one-on-one duplications on Earth. The techniqe was developed for crewed space activities, Apollo through the ISS. Only the virtually-real Mars settings remain to be created,  through the "magic of digital animation" developed for Star Wars, etc.

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#3 2004-05-29 10:31:15

mboeller
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Registered: 2004-05-08
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Re: Made on Mars Technology - Bootstrapping Little Robot to Big Robot

They are already working on self replicating robots for Luna so maybe they will be available when we finally settle on mars :

http://www.niac.usra.edu/?link=mar04_mt … ...ows_mtg


Look for the PDF from Gregory Chirikjian; he has done a lot with his LEGO bricks (!).

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