XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.astro, sci.physics   
   From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
      
   >In sci.physics Robert Clark  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Suppose we made the probes at the virus or bacteria scale then used   
   >> self-assembly to form a macroscale spacecraft say size of Mars Pathfinder.   
   >> Then we might only need a ground laser of currently existing size, say a few   
   >> hundred kilowatts, to send multiple nanoscale components to relativistic   
   >> speeds.   
   >>   
   >> Know of references for doing self-assembly with components at the nanoscale?   
   >>   
   >   
   >Star Trek the Next Generation and Star Gate SG1.   
   >   
      
   You left out Stargate Atlantis, which sort of had the penultimate in   
   that sort of thing.   
      
      
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