' Wrote:That haystack is easily the size of Columbia.
And the haystack is made of razor wire.
use nanites, not people.
Or ants! You genetically engineer ants to find logical structures. They wander all over the haystack, build nests over the logical parts. You scan it for infrareds, and where the ants are clustered, that's the logic.
Myself, I'd lay money on a smooth distribution of ants.
Taking the metaphor too far? Just one of the services I offer.