On Saturday, November 26, 2016 at 8:35:38 AM UTC+13, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,
says...

I agree swarm robots will revolutionise mining. I disagree that they do not exist.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/r...r-space-mining

You snipped all the content so you could move the goal posts. These are
absolutely not self replicating like you originally asserted.

Jeff
--
All opinions posted by me on Usenet News are mine, and mine alone.
These posts do not reflect the opinions of my family, friends,
employer, or any organization that I am a member of.

Its funny you complain when it is you who can't put two and two together and reliably get four! lol.

Rao, D. Bhogeswara, Choudary, U. V., Erstfeld, T. E., Williams, R. J., and Chang, Y. A., "Extraction Processes for the Production of Aluminum, Titanium, Iron, Magnesium, and Oxygen from Nonterrestrial Sources," in J. Billingham, W. Gilbreath, and B. O'Leary, eds., Space Resources and Space Settlements, NASA SP-428, 1979, pp. 257-274.

http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/chapter5.htm

http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/Growin...actory1981.htm

http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-self-repl...gal-1463732482