in thread "Dissolving vs. Surviving": This doesn't follow. Jim's argument largely rests on uniqueness of place, not uniqueness of architecture. So even if for reasons of place no xenos arose anywhere else, that doesn't tell you much about other architectures except that they didn't win the boo... 4w ago (collapse hidden) 77 This doesn't follow. (view hidden) 77 Continuing on the question of how industrial microtechnology interacts with protein nanotechnology, I've already given my thoughts above on how I expect the computer software revolution to overhaul DNA based life-coding. So that's one interaction. But it c... 4w ago (collapse hidden) 55 Continuing on the qu (view hidden) 55