XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.astro, sci.physics   
      
   In sci.physics Robert Clark  wrote:   
   > I've been thinking of ways we can get such nanocraft to link up through   
   > self-assembly and form larger structures that can do more detailed   
   > observations and experiments. This could work even for visits to far off   
   > destinations still in the Solar System such as Kuiper belt objects like   
   > Pluto or the Oort cloud.   
   >   
   > The main problem is getting the many objects flying independently and   
   > getting further apart the further out they go to gradually be drawn to each   
   > other and link up. Once they link up, I don't it would be to difficult to   
   > then get them to do self-assembly.   
   >   
   > But it's that drawing together step that is the sticking point.   
   >   
   >   Bob Clark   
      
   Since you are already using Stargate technology, i.e. replicators, just   
   use some more, i.e. tractor beams.   
      
   --   
   Jim Pennino   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)