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Near-Term Self-replicating Probes -- A Concept Design
Olivia Borgue, Andreas M. Hein
Self-replicating probes are spacecraft with the capacity to create copies of themselves. Self-replication would potentially allow for an exponential increase in the number of probe…
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World ships: Feasibility and Rationale
Andreas M. Hein, Cameron Smith, Frédéric Marin +1
World ships are hypothetical, large, self-contained spacecraft for crewed interstellar travel, taking centuries to reach other stars. Due to their crewed nature, size, and long tri…