Evolvable Hardware: Kinematic Cellular Automata

[mama123890]

lol my comment is probally the shortest...

[jag9998]

@mama123890 not anymore XD

[mama123890]

@jag9998 lol

[Trouble1354]

Freitas did not get grants from NIAC - he was a consultant for a short time on a single NIAC project, whose primary investigator knew nothing about Collins work (and still doesn't because Collins has not written any peer-reviewed journal articles -- the pattents and his web site are very difficult to read--Collins needs a technical writer to clarify his thoughts).

[Trouble1354]

Hod Lipson got $75K from NAIC two years before Freitas worked as a consultant for a lot less on a different project.

Yes, encryption is easier than decryption. If you're good at either, you should get a job at No Such Agency.

[Trouble1354]

Me? Politically Correct? I've been accused of being a member of the vast right wing conspiracy, but never PC. FOTFLOL!!!

"Freitas" is not an American name. Neither is Collins. Mine isn't either, and unless yours is Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, or something like that, neither is yours.

[Trouble1354]

Have you Google Image searched Freitas' pictures? If he's Hispanic, then I'm Chinese. Even if he was Hispanic, who is giving him special consideration?

As to Merkle, he invented public key encryption. One does not accidentally stumble into such inventions.

By atomic rockets, you must mean nuclear powered ones. Are you talking about Orion or thermal? At any rate carbon nanotube skyhook and diamondiod tower launchers will make atomic rockets obsolete.

[Trouble1354]

Dear @leadman22,

Both Freitas and have IQs so high that they don't need to copy anyone's work. Both have given proper accreditation to my work, and if they ever didn't, I doubt they'd ignore it on purpose. If they didn’t give proper credit to you, then it’s most likely because they independently came up with the same ideas that logically derive from Von Neumann’s original ideas.

[Trouble1354]

Dear @leadman22,

Oh, you mean Napster Fabber (no r): fabbers.com

Don't forget RepRap, Fab@Home, and all the other open-source projects.

They aren't hostile to patents as they are to rent-collecting. Having been a renter and a landlord, I can understand both positions.

What can I say? The world is changing.

[Trouble1354]

I would agree that self-replicating and similar machines are extremely important, and when implemented at the nanoscale will be as important as the molecular invention/evolution of photosynthesis. As far as Wikipedia napsterizing machine self-replication... how do you sue the Internet?

I think you meant molecubes (with an s). But they aren't very practical because they don't operate at a molecular level, which means there is no error correction at that scale--a fatal flaw, IMHO.

[Trouble1354]

The Collins patent will expire in 2016. Even if it does infringe (it's rather difficult to tell from the lawyerese on the patent itself), it is highly doubtful that anything will be commercialized before then. This gives new impetus to Kurzwiel's claim that timing is everthing when inventing something (i.e. don't be too early).

BTW, Freitas never worked at NIAC; he was a subcontract. At any rate, NASA disbanded NIAC for budgetary reasons.

[Trouble1354]

@leadman22

Who the heck is Charles Michael Collins? What has he published/pattented?

Freitas is so careful to document all his sources that he even has more bibliographical footnotes in his science fiction than Michael Crighton in.State of Fear.

[DesmondInnovation]

See my YouTube channel for more on self reconfiguring technology.

[roidroid]

WUT!?

can modular bots actually make a horse move like that?