Self-replicating robots

Ever want to escape the earth? There are billions of other worlds out there, and while we don’t know a lot about most of them, there’s a good chance at least one is better than Earth itself. With the possible exception of Mars, it’s extremely unlikely humans living now will ever make it to any of those distant worlds. What might, instead, is a Von Neumann self-replicating robot probe.

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