That said, the limitations of power etc may be one thing, but the applications for small autonomous robots like this are many.
Totally aside from the question that there may be excellent reasons to want to do a task with many small agents rather than one large one. How useful is a single ant?
Certainnly an external source of potential engery can change the system.
Need to go read the original myself, but it would be valid to arrange an energy transfer from one body (asteroid) to another (earth). The system remains closed, but component energies change.
Mandatory disclaimer -- IANAAstrophysicist
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While I agree in general, and certainly in this
case with the amount of scrutiny RSA has had, we
still see cases where someone makes a very basic simplifying assumption that turns out to be wrong.
If it happens, I suspect a crack to RSA will be simple and elegant.
Sometime we need the kooks to remind us to go back and look at some of the really cool stuff perople did though.
Some of the most elegant solutions rely on very basic principals and technology.
Radio, magnetic levitation, wireless control. Who'da thunk that these would have been done in the days of the gaslight?
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That said, the limitations of power etc may be one thing, but the applications for small autonomous robots like this are many.
Totally aside from the question that there may be excellent reasons to want to do a task with many small agents rather than one large one. How useful is a single ant?
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Need to go read the original myself, but it would be valid to arrange an energy transfer from one body (asteroid) to another (earth). The system remains closed, but component energies change.
Mandatory disclaimer -- IANAAstrophysicist
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If it happens, I suspect a crack to RSA will be simple and elegant.
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Sometime we need the kooks to remind us to go back and look at some of the really cool stuff perople did though. Some of the most elegant solutions rely on very basic principals and technology. Radio, magnetic levitation, wireless control. Who'da thunk that these would have been done in the days of the gaslight?
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Maybe they'll sell hardware and support? It might even be a boon to SGI, who's hardware is decent, aside from being an industry leader on bugtraq...
Maintaining a trusted OS is non-trivial, one might almost expect them to embrace it.
If the trusted platform becomes more ubiquitous and easier to manage, they might even sell more systems.