-----Original Message-----
From: Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: 11 December 1998 16:51
Subject: Re: Travelling the Stars
>"Samael" <Samael@dial.pipex.com> writes:
What are we sending out in these nanocraft?
If I want to travel out in one of these these things (obviously PKZipped
>
>> How about nano sized cradt with a whopping big shield in front of them (I
>> liked the idea in Songs of Distant Earth of using an ice shield as it
>> shouldn't be hard to pick up hydrox elsewhere).
>
>I think you would run the risk of having the shield break up in a
>nasty way - it is hit by a dust mote, and turns into a fireball. I
>prefer Bishop's idea of sending a lot of very small and cheap and
>redundant nanocraft by catapult instead - a few might flame out, but
>enough would survive.
Samael