See: http://www.daviddarling.i...a/V/vonNeumannprobe.html
You are using macro tech and some handwaved gadgets to bootstrap your way up, instead of full-blown molecular nanotech.
Personally, I'd like a team of human or equivalent engineers there to supervise.
But, with a bit of luck to stop anything too disastrous happening, and enough foresight on the part of the terraforming kit designer...
Do-able. Slow, but doable.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
You are using macro tech and some handwaved gadgets to bootstrap your way up, instead of full-blown molecular nanotech.
Personally, I'd like a team of human or equivalent engineers there to supervise.
But, with a bit of luck to stop anything too disastrous happening, and enough foresight on the part of the terraforming kit designer...
Do-able. Slow, but doable.
--
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind