-=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Leonard Erickson <=-

 LE> Oh, we *could* build stuff up a molecule at a time with tech we
 LE> could build easily enough. But it'd take a few hundred years to
 LE> buiuld anything big enough to handle. :-)

 RJT> Not necessarily.  The answer there is to go highly parallel,  and that
 RJT> depends on some "fabricator" that can be made in high volume and
 RJT> cheaply.  Maybe a tailored organism?  The lines are getting blurry, 
 RJT> anyhow... 

It also depends on there being *room* for them to not get in each
other's way *and* on being able tyo control them all at the same time.

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