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"By the time I can take people out to where Hubble is looking, they won't be human anymore, by a long way."
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Lithocule literally means tiny stone; in this case, a tiny building block. It is not clear how they maneuver. In the book, uncounted numbers of these tiny parts are coming together in ocean shallows to create a new island.
This is an interesting way to present a stereolithograph technology; in fact, it inverts the current technology completely. In standard stereolithography, the "smarts" are in the machine that has the design and control over where the particles settle to create the object. The polymer in the tank is "dumb" - it just deposits a solid bit when "told" to by the laser.
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