This can't be right....
This can't be right, can it?
Of course, if it were right, it might be useful. You wouldn't need to take
specific things along, you could just fabricate what you need when you get there.
The LMM is wondering if it can replicate a husband that picks up wet towels. I said no, it only makes actual copies. So the LMM is now wondering if it can make George Clooney.
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posted by Mungowitz @ 7/13/2011 08:36:00 AM
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I saw one of those machines in Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets.
http://xkcd.com/924/
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/3d_printer.png
I get excited just thinking about technologies such as 3d printing. Think of the possibilities as this technology improves and costs drop.
What great stagnation?
I put up a couple of posts about this a few days back at my place.
Mr. Overwater. That is funny.
I'm going to copy.
Wait for the spam as in
http://xkcd.com/924/
The main problem with these printers is that they need to print with very specific materials (either the powder/binder stuff in the video or some sort of plastic). This means that we can't (yet) get them to make parts or tools that are of comparable strength to, say, the forged steel crescent wrench in the video. The printed one is like a sub-dollar-store knockoff quality version - it may work for really low-intensity applications, but if you need to lay on the torque, it'll break.
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