It’s an idea that every college student with a gravity bong and The Matrix on DVD has thought of before, but [Rich Terrile] is a well-regarded scientist, the director of the Center for Evolutionary Computation and Automated Design at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and is currently writing an as-yet-untitled book about the subject.
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