• Robert A. Freitas Jr. (born 1952) is an American nanotechnologist. Freitas was born in Camden, Maine. His father worked in agriculture and his mother was...
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    Creation (coining the term clanking replicator for such machines) and by Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle in their review Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines...
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  • Ecophagy is a term coined by Robert Freitas that means the consumption of an ecosystem. It derives from Greek οἶκος (oikos) 'house, household' and φαγεῖν...
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  • Claudio Freitas. Fellow Brazilian Eder Jofre, generally recognized as the greatest world champion to come out of that country, was one of Freitas' childhood...
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    machine replicators is very broad. A comprehensive study to date by Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle has identified 137 design dimensions grouped into a...
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  • Freitas may refer to: Alcindo Martha de Freitas, Brazilian football player Acelino Freitas (born 1975), Brazilian boxer Francisco José de Freitas (born...
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  • based on "Smalley fingers"). The Nanofactory Collaboration, founded by Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle in 2000, is a focused ongoing effort involving 23 researchers...
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    States Army. Freitas, who is of Portuguese ancestry, was born in Chico, California, on August 29, 1979, the son of Robin McMichael and John Freitas. After graduating...
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  • Self-Replicating Machines: 3.11 Freitas Interstellar Probe Replicator (1979-1980) Valdes, Francisco; Freitas Jr., Robert A. (1980). "Comparison of Reproducing...
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  • the ecophagy scenario was published in 2000 by nanomedicine pioneer Robert Freitas. Drexler more recently conceded that there is no need to build anything...
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    computation, has been presented in the medical context of nanomedicine by Robert Freitas. Some of these discussions[which?] remain at the level of unbuildable...
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  • .33...95F. Freitas, Robert A. Jr. (July–August 1983). "Debunking the Myths of Interstellar Probes". AstroSearch. 1: 8–9. Freitas, Robert A. Jr. (November...
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    Self-Replicating Machines (2004) by Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle. The Nanofactory Collaboration, founded by Freitas and Merkle in 2000, is a focused,...
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    would be medical nanorobotics or nanomedicine, an area pioneered by Robert Freitas in numerous books and papers. The ability to design, build, and deploy...
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    self-replicating variation on Project Daedalus was published in 1980 by Robert Freitas. The non-replicating design was modified to include all subsystems necessary...
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  • Robert de Almendra Freitas 16 November 1947 – 5 April 2021) was a Brazilian doctor and politician. The son of Ferdinand Carvalho de Almendra Freitas and...
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  • Dvorsky Alexandra Elbakyan Warren Ellis Robert Ettinger Luc Ferry Hal Finney (computer scientist) FM-2030 Robert Freitas Jacque Fresco Patri Friedman Steve...
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  • in the Solar System. This followed the work of Ronald N. Bracewell. Robert Freitas, Christopher Rose and Gregory Wright have argued that interstellar probes...
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  • respirocyte, an artificial red cell designed (though not yet built) by Robert Freitas. During his eight years in the Department of Bioengineering at the University...
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  • Society's starship study Project Daedalus in 1978. Starting in 1979, Robert Freitas advanced arguments for the proposition that physical space-probes are...
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  • resources than present-day intraplanetary wars involve. By contrast, Robert Freitas argued that the energy expenditure required for interstellar war would...
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    Project Daedalus model sparked further theoretical research. In 1980, Robert Freitas suggested a more ambitious plan: a self-replicating spacecraft intended...
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  • 2011. Freitas Jr RA (2003). Biocompatibility. Nanomedicine. Vol. IIA. Georgetown, TX: Landes Bioscience. ISBN 978-1-57059-700-8.[page needed] Freitas Jr...
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    nanotechnology will play an essential role in extreme life extension. Robert Freitas, a nanorobotics theorist, suggests tiny medical nanorobots could be...
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    Reverend James Clark Reverend Arthur Ribeiro Reverend Robert Freitas Reverend Gary Tollner Reverend Robert Ponciroli Reverend Donald Broderson Reverend Stephen...
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    signals are intelligent communications. Similarly, Laurance Doyle, Robert Freitas[citation needed] and Brenda McCowan compare the complexity of cetacean...
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    Jonathan Lunine (born 1959), American planetary scientist and physicist. Robert Freitas (born 1952), specialist in nano-technology and nano-medicine. John Baross...
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    by Trinidad-born Pete de Freitas. Unlike the other band members, who were from working class Liverpool families, de Freitas was considered "posh" - he...
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  • films. Tony Freitas (1908-1994), was an American baseball player who played as a pitcher in the minor leagues and Major League Baseball. Freitas served in...
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  • vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world." Robert Freitas speculated in 1978 that the technological advancement and energy usage...
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