Will We Ever Send Self-Replicating Probes into Space?

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Do you guys consider this a possibility? or maybe even probability that we will eventually send out self-replicating probes out into space?
 
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You've had a couple of responses to this in the General Astronomy thread, so this is a bit redundant.
 

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