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  2. Self-replicating spacecraft - Wikipedia

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    The sentient machines are descended from an uncrewed factory ship that was to be self replicating, but suffered radiation damage and went off course, eventually landing on Titan around 1,000,000 BC. Manifold: Space, Stephen Baxter's novel, starts with the discovery of alien self-replicating machines active within the Solar system.

  3. Self-replicating machine - Wikipedia

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    The first quantitative engineering analysis of a self-replicating spacecraft was published in 1980 by Robert Freitas, [56] in which the non-replicating Project Daedalus design was modified to include all subsystems necessary for self-replication. The design's strategy was to use the probe to deliver a "seed" factory with a mass of about 443 ...

  4. Astrochicken - Wikipedia

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    Freeman Dyson in 2005. Astrochicken is the name given to a thought experiment expounded by theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson.An Astrochicken is a small, one-kilogram spacecraft, a self-replicating automaton that could explore space more efficiently than a crewed craft could due to its innovative mix of technology.

  5. Project Daedalus - Wikipedia

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    A quantitative engineering analysis of a self-replicating variation on Project Daedalus was published in 1980 by Robert Freitas. [9] The non-replicating design was modified to include all subsystems necessary for self-replication. Use the probe to deliver a seed factory, with a mass of about 443 metric tons, to a distant site.

  6. Conway's Game of Life - Wikipedia

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    Self-organization § Computer science; Of Man and Manta – Trilogy of science fiction novels by Piers Anthony; the novel 'OX' features a cellular automaton lifeform based on Game of Life; LifeWiki – Wiki dedicated to Conway's Game of Life; Boids – Artificial life program (simulation of flocking birds)

  7. List of spaceplanes - Wikipedia

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    List of space launch system designs; Mother ship This page was last edited on 4 October 2024, at 11:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  8. Von Neumann universal constructor - Wikipedia

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    Von Neumann's System of Self-Replication Automata with the ability to evolve (Figure adapted from Luis Rocha's Lecture Notes at Binghamton University [6]).i) the self-replicating system is composed of several automata plus a separate description (an encoding formalized as a Turing 'tape') of all the automata: Universal Constructor (A), Universal Copier (B), operating system (C), extra ...

  9. Gray goo - Wikipedia

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    Gray goo (also spelled as grey goo) is a hypothetical global catastrophic scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass (and perhaps also everything else) on Earth while building many more of themselves, [1] [2] a scenario that has been called ecophagy (literally: "consumption of the environment"). [3]