Programmable & Smart Matter
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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How to Make Blades From the Arms
The strength of the phalanx formation, or its various cousins, is based on how well its members could maintain the formation. Relaying information between them quickly and accurately is another important problem to solve. It is here that we also need to note a probably inevitable weakness of smalt matter too, which is outright material weakness. I mentioned earlior that it seems we ow that the t one thousand from terminator couldn't form guns. And we see a similar limitation with many shape shifters and syphi like odo from sta track deep space nine who can make blades from the arm s, but not cannons.
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