Biologically inspired von Neumann probes could take us to other stars - by AndyTomaswick
A typical bacteria weighs right around one pico-gram. And with sufficiently advanced genetic modification, bacteria can do anything from processing toxic waste to emitting light. Therefore, Dr. Church thinks they might make an excellent interstellar exploration tool.The basis for that argument comes down to a combination of cost and statistics. Cost is the simple explanation of how much money it takes to get material into orbit.
With trillions of smaller probes, there is a much higher likelihood that at least some would get through and make it to the destination star system. Even those that are traveling at relativistic speeds wouldn’t have too great of an impact on anything they come in contact with, thereby not necessarily wiping out all of its traveling companions at once.
Church suggests that a single bacteria could, in theory, create a communication device that we could detect from Earth. To do so, it could use the presence of either bioluminescence or reflectance.
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