<ianparker2@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>A Von Neumann machine could in fact build a Walmart. I am more
> interested in getting a microwave system into space and solving the
> world's energy problems.
>
> Are Walmart going to sell me a digitally controlled machine tool so
> that I can make all the parts that are no longer in stock? They clearly
> have the technology!
>
> To go to Mars economically you need facilities there, this is only
> achievable by something like a VN machine. Anything else will cost
> upwards of $80 billion.
>
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/rec.aviation.military/browse_frm/thread/1d7c010855caf1dd/074a60610c4da1bb?hl=en#074a60610c4da1bb
>

hasegawa
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