self-replication
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Commentators generally agree that, in the event molecular nanotechnology were developed, its self-replication should be permitted only under very controlled or "inherently safe" conditions.
Gul Damar discovered a way to disable the self-replication of the mines and completed the procedure and fired on the minefield seconds before Rom and Kira disabled DS9's weapons in hopes to prevent just that.
Fields involving study of self-replication Most of the research has occurred in a few areas: * Biology studies natural replication and replicators, and their interaction.
Ulam was the one who suggested using a discrete system for creating a reductionist model of self-replication.
Mechanical self-replication main An activity in the field of robots is the self-replication of machines.
Once at the star, it would begin automated self-replication, constructing a factory, initially to manufacture exploratory probes and eventually to create a copy of the original spacecraft after 1,000 years.