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Re:Six more radio signals from deep space deepen mystery by kiba on Sunday December 25, 2016 @02:14PM (#13255075)
You don't need a "self-replicating swarm" to build more satellites.

You just need to pump out lot of satellites.

There's nothing special about self-replicating "swarm", either.

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Re:Six more radio signals from deep space deepen mystery by naasking on Sunday December 25, 2016 @06:10PM (#13255904)
Automated self replication is pretty special. We don't have anything like that yet. All of our tech requires human intervention when it breaks down.
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Re:Six more radio signals from deep space deepen mystery by abhishekkr on Monday December 26, 2016 @10:01PM (#13261014)
kiba above doesn't seem to know exponential growth. Self-replication leads to exponential growth. Creating more satellites here locally only gives you linear growth.
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