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Plenty of room at the top

Haddington Dynamics Founder Kent Gilson mentioned Richard Feynman's talk There's Plenty of room at the bottom as his inspiration for the robots creating itself 1000 times smaller.
Looking at the concept of weight, I went in the other direction of scale of somehting 1000 times bigger.

And then I understood, its not easy making big things. For example, it took good part of a year and many tries to make this worlds biggest cookie.

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