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Replicator Quotes
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I looked at the glass tube from a safe vantage point across the room. Replicators. Ice-eaters. Seeds of an inorganic biology.
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in the hypercold environment for which they had been designed, submicroscopic filaments in the replicators would begin a slow, painstaking metabolism. assimilating trace volatiles and organic molecules and shaping ice into cellular walls, ribs, spars, and joiners. would grow highly sophisticated appendages, eyes of ice and carbon to sweep the starry darkness.
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Then, in its senescence as a complex machine, the replicator colony would break down into individual clusters of simple cells, identify another bright or nearby star, and use accumulated volatiles mined from the host cometary nucleus to propel its seeds out of the solar system. The replicators would build a neural network as big as the night sky, and it would talk to us.
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