I consider anytime one is moving matter from one dominant gravity well to a different dominant gravity well that one is engaging in disassembly and/or assembly. The probes cited generally moved things from Earth's gravity well into the Moon's gravity well. We have been doing a fairly good job moving material from Earth into the Mars and Venus gravity wells over the last ~40 years as well. We even a few instances where we have moved things from the sun's gravity well into the Milky Way's (or perhaps the local galactic group's) gravity well.
<br><br>I will freely admit that we have not been doing it in high volume (so continued activity in these areas would require a very long time to observe a significant effect). However that all changes once one has designed planetary disassembly & reassembly nanorobots.
<br><br>Robert<br><br>For more information see:<br><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20011218091635/www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/MatrioshkaBrains/PlntDssmbly.html">http://web.archive.org/web/20011218091635/www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/MatrioshkaBrains/PlntDssmbly.html
</a><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/20/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jay Dugger</b> <<a href="mailto:jay.dugger@gmail.com">jay.dugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 12/20/05, Robert Bradbury <<a href="mailto:robert.bradbury@gmail.com">robert.bradbury@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>[snip]<br><br>> People unfortunately have a difficult time making the leap from where we<br>
> are now to the stage where planetary dismantlement (and reassembly) is<br>> simply one of the things intelligent entities can do (in spite of the fact<br>> that we have been doing just that (to a limited extent) since 1959 [
e.g.<br>> Lunas 1,2 & 3 and Pioneer 4].<br>[snip]<br><br>What antecedent do you mean for the pronoun "that"? I googled each of<br>the Lear missions but I still don't grasp what you meant.<br><br>--<br>Jay Dugger
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