These vehicles - the lumbering robots, as Richard Dawkins calls them - are animals and plants, the prolific and exquisitely designed products of the first replicator.
You could make bars of gold in your replicator.
A living creature, once just a vehicle of the first replicator, was now the copying machinery for the next.
Yet this shift to a new replicator may be a dangerous tipping point.
The second is that one kind of copying can piggy-back on another: that is, one replicator (the information that is copied) can build on the products (vehicles or interactors) of another.
In what's being seen as a precursor to a Star Trek-like replicator, astronauts aboard the ISS used their 3d printer to manufacture a socket wrench.
This setting indicates if you can start the replicator.
Punch a button on the replicator and it'll spit out a pair of flawless diamond earrings.
We humans were vehicles for the first replicator and copying machinery for the second.
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