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    Robot Ants Will Pave the Way for Martian Colony
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    10/29/08

    In reply to Robot Ants Will Pave the Way for Martian Colony
    Stargate Replicators + Transformers Constructicons = made of awesome.


    These little buggies are my heroes of the day.

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    Image of Fedaykin Fedaykin
    10/29/08

    In reply to Robot Ants Will Pave the Way for Martian Colony
    There was a book called Recursion that had humans doing most of their construction using little robots like that, but they could self-replicate. You could drop one and it would be programmed like DNA to replicate and construct buildings or whole cities. It was just one of the book's interesting ideas.
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    Image of Illogic Illogic
    10/29/08

    In reply to Robot Ants Will Pave the Way for Martian Colony
    This very cool and all, posse, I-SWARM, and all that...

    ...But why does it have a penis?
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    Image of Belabras Belabras
    10/29/08

    In reply to Robot Ants Will Pave the Way for Martian Colony
    I need a swarm of these to clean my house.
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    Image of Im a people person. Who drinks. Im a people person. Who drinks.
    10/29/08

    In reply to Robot Ants Will Pave the Way for Martian Colony
    A post about space ants and no one welcomes our new insect overlords?
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    10/29/08

    In reply to Robot Ants Will Pave the Way for Martian Colony
    Cool. until it tries to stick its hand into my head and learn every thing I know. If it wants to know who Vader really is, it has to watch the movies for its self. No one sticks hands into my head.
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    10/29/08

    @ldevitt: Congratulations. You win the internets. XD
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    Image of nonpareil nonpareil
    10/29/08

    In reply to Robot Ants Will Pave the Way for Martian Colony
    One word - ah, OK, three words: Von Neumann probes.
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    Image of SethProculus SethProculus
    10/29/08

    In reply to Robot Ants Will Pave the Way for Martian Colony
    Hope there's no kerons on Mars
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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    10/29/08

    In reply to Robot Ants Will Pave the Way for Martian Colony
    it's like that episode of star trek TNG [www.imdb.com]
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    Image of Anekanta - Go Play! Anekanta - Go Play!
    10/29/08

    In reply to Robot Ants Will Pave the Way for Martian Colony
    Why does the robot in the picture look like it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright?
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    10/29/08

    In reply to Robot Ants Will Pave the Way for Martian Colony
    Yes, but how long until they build a miniature spaceship and fly off to explore the vast and uncharted mysteries of your dirty sock hamper?
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    Image of ParryLost ParryLost
    10/29/08

    In reply to Robot Ants Will Pave the Way for Martian Colony
    My god, it even looks a little like a Replicator.


    It's really awesome that these things are actually being developed, though it sounds like it's at a pretty early stage.

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