William Mook wrote:

On Friday, December 2, 2016 at 12:09:17 AM UTC+13, Jeff Findley wrote:
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On Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 12:07:40 AM UTC+13, Jeff Findley wrote:
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You are correct self replicating mining machines revolutionise mining.

Where are they today in mining?

Nowhere, because they DO NOT EXIST yet.

Bacteria that dissolve rock and plate containers with gold and copper on demand are already recovering copper and gold from copper mine tailings and spent copper mines today.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ia-mining.html

Bacteria can't mine asteroids you ignorant git.

I think its funny people who don't know that bacteria can breathe rock by dissolving oxides in vacuo call others who post here 'ignorant'. LOL!

The facts are that bacteria survive handily in space, and in vacuum by infesting any bit of metal oxide that happens to be around. This includes metal oxides in ore bodies. The metals they excrete, after concentrating them. This is how gold veins and copper veins get deposited in solid rock deep underground away from air. It is being ACTIVELY developed today to MINE ASTEROIDS! LOL.


Cite for these bacteria surviving and doing this in vacuum?


Of course posting that FACT here, opens anyone up to unwarranted verbal abuse! Which is a reflection of those who run this site. It would be nice if those who manage the internet would remove and repurpose sci.space.policy to kinder and gentler types.


You are STILL totally clueless about the internet and Usenet NEWS,
aren't you? I don't know how to break it to you but there are no
"those who run this site". In fact, there is no "site". This is
Usenet NEWS. And you seriously believe that there are "those who
manage the internet" who can somehow 'repurpose' things? Can even
Mook possibly be this clueless?


Now, bacterial plaques, can interact to carry out computation. That computation can be organised to cause bacterium to excrete metals, and other materials, in well defined patterns. In short, we can build stuff with this sort of thing.


Sure. And if a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass when he hops.


Now, ignorant people have said bacteria and fungi, algae and fungi are not machines. I would counter that a more intelligent response is to note that if you can push a button and reliably know what any of these single celled organisms can do, to the point where you can build stuff with them - they ARE machines TO YOU.


Mookie, who after all these years, STILL doesn't have a clue about how
either the internet or Usenet NEWS works, is talking about "ignorant
people"? Irony is not at all like silvery or brassy.


http://www.forbes.com/best/2001/0910/016.html


And Mook once again demonstrates that he doesn't know the difference
between paper speculation and actual reality.



None of the rest of what I snipped had anything to to with acual,
existing, self replicating machines which can be used to actually mine
an asteroid.


I think its funny that exceptionally stupid people who cannot see how a thing works, think all manner of things differently than what is actually being discussed and then complain about their idiocy.


I think it's funny that someone who still has no clue about what the
internet and Usenet newsgroups are, even after having had it explained
to him multiple times over years, can talk about "exceptionally stupid
people" with a straight face.



You made an assertion that's completely and utterly false.

I think it funny how quickly perverse liars call others who speak only truth, liars, when it suits them. What freaking posers they are! LOL.


Now step away from that mirror, poser.


--
"Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is
only stupid."
-- Heinrich Heine