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ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Dec 12 2005, 08:29 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	Robotic 'spiders' could be the key to building large-scale structures in space, according to ESA's Advanced Concepts Team. The tiny mechanical spiders would inch their way across large nets of fabric in space performing small tasks or lining up to create an antenna or some other structure. Full story: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMHVXVLWFE_index_0.html *********************** Exploring Caves with Hopping Microbots Astrobiology Magazine Dec. 8, 2005 *********************** NASA-funded researchers are developing "hopping microbots" capable of exploring hazardous terrain, including underground caves and one day, to search for life below the surface of... http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedire...sID=5103&m=7610 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined, and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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ljk4-1 Future Robot Space Explorers Dec 12 2005, 08:29 PM

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