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Hod Lipson ( Cornell University), "Autonomous Self-Extending Machines for Accelerating Space Exploration" [34] A 2016 article in The New Yorker noted that replicators may be a "metaphor for the distant endpoint of the Industrial Revolution". [14] They point out that technology as presented in Star Trek: The Next Generation changes the moral equation of being human, because nearly anything you want can be created with a request. [14] The design space for machine replicators is very broad. A comprehensive study [8] to date by Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle has identified 137 design dimensions grouped into a dozen separate categories, including: (1) Replication Control, (2) Replication Information, (3) Replication Substrate, (4) Replicator Structure, (5) Passive Parts, (6) Active Subunits, (7) Replicator Energetics, (8) Replicator Kinematics, (9) Replication Process, (10) Replicator Performance, (11) Product Structure, and (12) Evolvability.

The Foresight Institute has published guidelines for researchers in mechanical self-replication. [13] The guidelines recommend that researchers use several specific techniques for preventing mechanical replicators from getting out of control, such as using a broadcast architecture. a b HenryQuastler (1964) Emergence of Biological Organization, Yale University Press, New Haven Connecticut ASIN: B0000CMHJ2 Clark said that if Replicator is being put to the test, there are several things the Defense Department would need to do. Freeman J. Dyson (1970-02-26). The twenty-first century (Speech). Vanuxem Lecture. Princeton University.Much of the design study was concerned with a simple, flexible chemical system for processing lunar regolith, and the differences between the ratio of elements needed by the replicator, and the ratios available in regolith. The limiting element was Chlorine, an essential element to process regolith for Aluminium. Chlorine is very rare in lunar regolith, and a substantially faster rate of reproduction could be assured by importing modest amounts.

Replicator technology was unknown to the indigenous people of the region around Ocampa. The Kazon, in particular, repeatedly tried to obtain this technology, as did other races. Captain Janeway feared that if this technology was acquired by a civilization before it was ready, disastrous consequences could ensue. For this reason, and because of the Prime Directive, Janeway refused to give up this technology at any price. ( VOY: " State of Flux") By 2377, however, the crew of Voyager had shared replicators to help people feed and clothe themselves a number of times. ( VOY: " Flesh and Blood") In contrast, the Ferengi Arridor and Kol used a portable replicator to pass themselves off as the Holy Sages of the Takarians. ( VOY: " False Profits") Bernal, John Desmond (1929). "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Freitas, Robert; Merkle, Ralph (2004). "Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines - General Taxonomy of Replicators" . Retrieved 2013-06-29.Breivik, Jarle (2001). "Self-Organization of Template-Replicating Polymers and the Spontaneous Rise of Genetic Information". Entropy. Entroy. 3 (4): 273–279. Bibcode: 2001Entrp...3..273B. doi: 10.3390/e3040273. Power would be provided by a "canopy" of solar cells supported on pillars. The other machinery would be placed under the canopy. Metzger, Philip (August 2016). "Space Development and Space Science Together, an Historic Opportunity". Space Policy. 37 (2): 77–91. arXiv: 1609.00737. Bibcode: 2016SpPol..37...77M. doi: 10.1016/j.spacepol.2016.08.004. S2CID 118612272. Robert A. Freitas Jr.; Ralph C. Merkle (2004). Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines. Landes Bioscience. p.14.

This ability to reproduce complex machines is furthered during the first season of Star Trek: Prodigy. A replicator is shown to have the capacity to replicate an entire starship in the second episode, "Lost & Found", when Gwyn is attempting to escape the Protostar. When she reaches the shuttle bay, she finds a replicator with the technology to manufacture a complete ship. The process by which it is replicated takes minutes rather than seconds though, and behaves more similarly to a 3D printer than a traditional replicator. [6] It is a long-term goal of some engineering sciences to achieve a clanking replicator, a material device that can self-replicate. The usual reason is to achieve a low cost per item while retaining the utility of a manufactured good. Many authorities say that in the limit, the cost of self-replicating items should approach the cost-per-weight of wood or other biological substances, because self-replication avoids the costs of labor, capital and distribution in conventional manufactured goods. Lipson, Hod; Evan Malone. "Autonomous Self-Extending Machines for Accelerating Space Exploration" (PDF) . Retrieved 2007-01-04. Moore, Edward F. (October 1956). "Artificial Living Plants". Scientific American. 195 (4): 118–126. Bibcode: 1956SciAm.195d.118M. doi: 10.1038/scientificamerican1056-118. Historians of machine tools, even before the numerical control era, sometimes figuratively said that machine tools were a unique class of machines because they have the ability to "reproduce themselves" [8] by copying all of their parts. Implicit in these discussions is that a human would direct the cutting processes (later planning and programming the machines), and would then assemble the parts. The same is true for RepRaps, which are another class of machines sometimes mentioned in reference to such non-autonomous "self-replication". In contrast, machines that are truly autonomously self-replicating (like biological machines) are the main subject discussed here.Replicator (evolution unit), the theoretical basic unit of evolution in the gene-centered view of evolution A more speculative, more complex microchip fabricator was specified to produce the computer and electronic systems, but the designers also said that it might prove practical to ship the chips from Earth as if they were "vitamins." du Castel, Bertrand (2015-07-15). "Pattern activation/recognition theory of mind". Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 9: 90. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2015.00090. ISSN 1662-5188. PMC 4502584. PMID 26236228. a b Drexler, K. Eric (1986). "Engines of Abundance (Chapter 4) Clanking Replicators". Engines of Creation. a b c d Saadia, Manu (2016-09-08). "The Enduring Lessons of "Star Trek" ". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved 2019-07-24.