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Sunday, 2004 October 3, 23:24 — futures

stock up on iridium supplement tablets

Suppose we launch a self-replicating system of robots that look for asteroids that might hit Earth, land on them and build engines to steer them into Earth-avoiding orbits.

Megayears later, might we find the biosphere depleted of some trace element that was heretofore supplied by meteors?

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