Thinking and researching

looking into aerogel. Found this website dealing with using people as free labor for science

http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

lifecycle:
egg
larva
pupa
adult

sources:

Extraction Of Carbon Dioxide From Atmosphere Seen Possible
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/004648.html

Nanotech replicators to build solar photovoltaics panels
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/003996.html
talks about self replicating machines possibility

self replicating machines:

A fundamental obstacle of self-replicating machines, how to repair the repair systems, was the critical failure in the automated society described in The Machine Stops.

Von Neumann

Berserkers The name is derived from a series of novels by Fred Saberhagen feature an ongoing war between humanity and such machines

Cellular automaton:

Some living things use naturally occurring cellular automata in their functioning.

Patterns of some seashells, like the ones in Conus and Cymbiola genus, are generated by natural CA. The pigment cells reside in a narrow band along the shell's lip. Each cell secretes pigments according to the activating and inhibiting activity of its neighbour pigment cells, obeying a natural version of a mathematical rule.^{[citation needed]} The cell band leaves the colored pattern on the shell as it grows slowly. For example, the widespread species Conus textile bears a pattern resembling the Rule 30 CA described above.

Conus textile photo link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Textile_cone.JPG#file

Stoma (botany), a gas exchange pore in plants
Stoma (medicine), an opening which connects a portion of the body cavity to the outside environment

Moore's artificial living plants

In 1956 mathematician Edward F. Moore proposed the first known suggestion for a practical real-world self-replicating machine, also published in Scientific American.^[15]^[16] Moore's "artificial living plants" were proposed as machines able to use air, water and soil as sources of raw materials and to draw its energy from sunlight via a solar battery or a steam engine. He chose the seashore as an initial habitat for such machines, giving them easy access to the chemicals in seawater, and suggested that later generations of the machine could be designed to float freely on the ocean's surface as self-replicating factory barges or to be placed in barren desert terrain that was otherwise useless for industrial purposes. The self-replicators would be "harvested" for their component parts, to be used by humanity in other non-replicating machines.

Nanoscale Silica May Be Key To Hydrogen Storage

http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/cat_nanotech_for_energy_tech.html

nanophotonics