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Which also brings the mind here to John von Neumann, a mathematician, he possibly made it many, many years ago about the concept von Neumann probes. At some point in time, he estimated humans to be able to produce self-replicating probes, and that will cut down on the introduction of dangers of sending people into space. So the idea is you make these replicating probes, they send them up into space, they go to different planets within the solar system, outside the solar system, they utilize the material on asteroids, beers, dust clouds, planets, to reproduce themselves and move on, all the time sending information back to Earth. So, what they'd be considered life then at some point, they reproduce, they're using energy, they're utilizing their environment. So, it gives food for thought about what actually life is, just off of him.
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