• NASA’s 1980 “Advanced Automation for Space Missions” study (http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/) was revisited: it proposed a self-replicating lunar factory that uses solar energy and hydrofluoric acid to dissolve regolith, with fluorine identified as the scarcest element for replication on the Moon.  
• Debate centered on whether the lunar environment—vacuum, absence of biomass, and high solar flux—actually simplifies self-replication compared to Earth, tempered by the need for radiation-hardened 1970s-era electronics.  
• Open-source manufacturing was surveyed: the global fablab network, the Fab@Home 3-D printer (criticized for cost and limited material range), a 225 MB Creative-Commons manufacturing-video archive (http://70.113.54.112/downloads/manufacturingclips.zip), and Ronen Kadushin’s Creative-Commons lighting fixtures as early consumer open-design examples.  
• Space-exploration resources shared included the high-signal “arocket” mailing list, NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper (http://moonmineralogymapper.jpl.nasa.gov/) for full-Moon mineral maps, and the peer-to-peer P2P Space Agency wiki (http://cosmeng.org/publicwiki/index.php/P2P_Space_Agency).  
• Industrial-automation standards discussion highlighted PackML/PackTags—an ISA-88 packaging-machine language created by General Mills, Hershey, Nabisco, and P&G under the OMAC Packaging Workgroup—promoting a “Connect-and-Pack” plug-and-play vision.  
• Participants critiqued the prevailing “step 1: get money, step 2: do something” startup culture and lamented that BOINC-style distributed computing remains the community’s best collective-effort tool, while calling for an “agent” or “talent manager” to handle funding and licensing for open-source developers.  
• Emlyn proposed a live-streamed “meat-robot” RepRap build session using webcams and chat, letting remote viewers guide assembly and receive small printed gifts; the absence of a single complete RepRap kit was noted, with parts.reprap.org and bitsfrombytes.com offered as partial solutions.