Complexity of self replicating systems (bits)

C program 808

Von Neumann's universal constructor 500,000

Internet worm (Robert Morris, Jr., 1988) 500,000

Mycoplasma capricolum 1,600,000

E. Coli 9,278,442

Drexler's assembler 100,000,000

Human 6,400,000,000

NASA Lunar
Manufacturing Facility over 100,000,000,000

http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/selfRep.html

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