![]() ![]() Matrioshka brains, Russian doll Dyson spheres the size of solar systems. Set in the multiple world universe of his Merchant Princes series, Hugo Award-winning author Charles Strosss Empire Games novels are techno-thrillers of inter-dimensional political intrigue, and espionage featuring alternate reality superpowers engaged in shadow wars, and the paratime traveling agents who serve them. Dismantle the moon! Dismantle Mars! Build masses of free-flying nanocomputing processor nodes exchanging data via laser link, each layer running off the waste heat of the next one in. We need to start with the low-mass bodies, reconfigure them for our own use. The solar system is a dead loss right now – dumb all over! Just measure the MIPS per milligram. Then we could turn all the available dumb matter into computronium and use it for processing our thoughts. They should be working on uploading and solving the nanoassembly conformational problem instead. ![]() They want to send canned primates to Mars!" Manfred swallows a mouthful of beer, aggressively plonks his glass on the table: "Mars is just dumb mass at the bottom of a gravity well there isn't even a biosphere there. ![]()
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