Comment Re:Making a replicator (Score 2) 105
People get freaked out by the idea of replicators, but what the hell are WE? Or any life form, for that matter? The simplest ones can survive on light or heat or chemical energy alone, and as long as there is energy and a few new necessary building blocks about (C, O, N etc in various forms) a lot of types of bacteria will happily replicate indefinitely!!
All this grey goo and nanotech rubbish is pure paranoia! It has already happened! It's life, dammit!