The Santa Claus machine and Pugwash According to Freitas and Merkle,Robert A. Freitas Jr., Ralph C. Merkle, Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines, Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX, 2004; http://www.molecularassembler.com/KSRM.htm the only known extant source on Taylor's concept of the "Santa Claus machine" is found in Nigel Calder's Spaceships of the Mind.Calder, Nigel Spaceships of the Mind, Viking Press, New York, 1978. The concept would use a large mass spectrometer to separate an ion beam into atomic elements for later use in making products.
The Santa Claus machine and Pugwash According to Freitas and Merkle,Robert A. Freitas Jr., Ralph C. Merkle, Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines, Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX, 2004; http//www.molecularass:embler.com/KSRM.htm the only known extant source on Taylor's concept of the "Santa Claus machine" is found in Nigel Calder's Spaceships of the Mind.Calder, Nigel Spaceships of the Mind, Viking Press, New York, 1978. The concept would use a large mass spectrometer to separate an ion beam into atomic elements for later use in making products.