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Vending Vending Machine

 self vending machine
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Vending Vending Machine produces a perfectly detailed miniature replica of itself.

Simply choose one of the three sizes, small, smaller or smallest; insert payment and watch the blur of movement as the rapid action 5 axis CNC machine creates your replica from an aluminium block in a few seconds then deposits it in the collection drawer.

Cheaper version dispenses premade coloured plastic replicas.

—xenzag, Oct 15 2021

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Already done this! [hippo, Oct 15 2021]

Von Neumann probes https://en.wikipedi...licating_spacecraft
And extensions of that concept [Frankx, Oct 15 2021]

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       Name: Vending Machine Vending Machine shirley?
—Frankx, Oct 15 2021
   

       I just like the simple double name so much; like Boeing Boeing
—xenzag, Oct 15 2021
   

       [+] but only if you reassure us that the mini vending machine replicas that the machine dispenses, come pre-loaded with their own supply of micro-vending machines, each of which naturally vends nano-vending machine replicas.   

       Also the factory that produces these original proposed devices should be fully automated, with orders placed using a large button at the loading bay onto which the palleted machine is automatically ejected
—pocmloc, Oct 15 2021
   

       It would be more impressive it if sold same size duplicates of itself.
—pocmloc, Oct 15 2021
   

       Do they take coins, or cards?
—pocmloc, Oct 15 2021
   

       A protozoa hunts and eats. What would a killer vending machine eat?
—Condiment, Oct 15 2021
   

       Von Neumann machines.
—Frankx, Oct 15 2021
   

       Oh actually, that argument makes it quite likely that the galaxy is teeming with murderous hive- mind machines
—Frankx, Oct 15 2021
   


 

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