I'm the guy that started the effort to reverse enginner the Rio600, A couple of weeks ago I kicked off a project to support multiple mp3 players under linux/whatever:
As described by A. C. Clarke (Fountains of paradise), Kim Stanley Robinson in the mars trilogy,
Seriously tho, we could start building one whithin our life times (~next 60 years), assuming we'll have nanotech cabable of makeing diamonds in the next 20 years.
(We can start moving the asteroid into position before we have the tech to make the cable).
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I'm the guy that started the effort to reverse enginner the Rio600, A couple of weeks ago I kicked off a project to support multiple mp3 players under linux/whatever:
See here.So far we have info for, or access to:
So join the mailing list if you have a player you want supported!
and PDA's - http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/hpcmips/.
As described by A. C. Clarke (Fountains of paradise), Kim Stanley Robinson in the mars trilogy,
Seriously tho, we could start building one whithin our life times (~next 60 years), assuming we'll have nanotech cabable of makeing diamonds in the next 20 years.
(We can start moving the asteroid into position before we have the tech to make the cable).
Greg Egan is dangerous ;-)
once you've read all his books you'll have trouble beleiving you exist much less anything else.
He's the only author i've seen so far that has done good "what if's" with nanotech and gen. eng. from a point of view of bad things hapening.