3-D Printing Whole Buildings in Stone... in Space: This Printer Has Rocks
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[QUOTE][URL="http://www.fastcompany.com/1579263/3-d-printing-whole-buildings-in-stonein-space-this-printer-rocks"][tab]In Pisa, Italy, mad genius Enrico Dini is building sandcastles on the moon. His giant 3-D printer is the first of its kind with the potential to print whole buildings, and it makes them out of solid rock, cutting down a thousand-year-long process into a few minutes. It uses sand, but someday it'll use moon dust.[/tab][IMG]http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/printed8_r.jpg[/IMG][/URL][/QUOTE]
Yeah lets print useless mathematical 3D shapes on the moon!
That's actually pretty badass.
We can make stereotypical alien building shapes and put them on the moon, thus creating alien conspiracies.
I say ISA should do it.
mr-kaki wins.
We must have "alien buildings"
Should be used to build hyper-realistic boulder replicas.
That's awesome. They can make wierd honeycomb structures and make everywhere look alien.
Also, whole OP is a link, ugh.
I kinda like the "whole OP is a link" thing when it's not a 20 pages essay, but just a small bit of text.
Means I have to put less efford into hitting it.
[QUOTE=hypno-toad;20700537]Should be used to build hyper-realistic boulders.[/QUOTE]
But... real boulders already ARE hyper realistic :c
[QUOTE=sltungle;20700705]But... real boulders already ARE hyper realistic :c[/QUOTE]
Not moon boulders
Wow this rocks!
One step closer to downloading my car. :smug:
[QUOTE=Doug52392;20701072]One step closer to downloading my car. :smug:[/QUOTE]
One step closer downloading that robotic rectum.
[QUOTE=Doug52392;20701072]One step closer to downloading my car. :smug:[/QUOTE]
That's illegal.
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Wow, that's stonning.
I'm stoned from the result of this!
Wait. A few minutes?
I thought current, small-scale 3D printers took like, a day, don't they?
Maybe I'm thinking of something else, though... I can't remember. :geno:
if he put one on the moon, he could tell it to print a moon base and then go back in a few days once it's done :D
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;20703051]Wait. A few minutes?
I thought current, small-scale 3D printers took like, a day, don't they?
Maybe I'm thinking of something else, though... I can't remember. :geno:[/QUOTE]
A day? It takes 30 minutes or less. Rarely does it take more.
Well, if done right, this could be the first step to making the IMB.
Now that is awesome. Build your moonbase remotely, then land when it's all ready to move in.
I love his title "Mad Genius"
Finally the world can be like EVE.
[QUOTE=Doug52392;20701072]One step closer to downloading my car. :smug:[/QUOTE]
One step closer to downloading fembots!
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;20705038]Finally the world can be like EVE.[/QUOTE]
Boring and skilling up while we sleep?
[QUOTE=johanz;20705080]Boring and skilling up while we sleep?[/QUOTE]
It's already like that.
My old high school had something like this, by something, it made plastic objects, but could only at the time make hand sized models; and yes, it was possible to dl a car, a model one that is. How it works, was you make the model using only AutoCAD, and the machine would heat polymers together and produce the object from the ground up. It would take so many hours to do so, and if you wanted to make a car, you had to render pieces of the model seperately. Unfortunately, the plastic 3-D printer I speak of cost 64 grand, and was only in the school for so long, before it had to go back to Europe. At the time, if there was a way to make a real hand gun and not get detected, this was the way to do it, by having this machine make a full polymer one, and with plastic ammunition, the metal detector is useless, but thats why airports use x-ray scanners now.
I don't know what to even say, awesome.
[QUOTE=npx190;20705340]My old high school had something like this, by something, it made plastic objects, but could only at the time make hand sized models; and yes, it was possible to dl a car, a model one that is. How it works, was you make the model using only AutoCAD, and the machine would heat polymers together and produce the object from the ground up. It would take so many hours to do so, and if you wanted to make a car, you had to render pieces of the model seperately. Unfortunately, the plastic 3-D printer I speak of cost 64 grand, and was only in the school for so long, before it had to go back to Europe. At the time, if there was a way to make a real hand gun and not get detected, this was the way to do it, by having this machine make a full polymer one, and with plastic ammunition, the metal detector is useless, but thats why airports use x-ray scanners now.[/QUOTE]
Your mess made little sense.
The designers who made this are really clever
[QUOTE=johanz;20706765]Your mess made little sense.[/QUOTE]
tl;dr His old school had something similier, but it was small and heated polymers together. Also, this ways the way to make an undetectable hand gun, but thats why the airports use x-ray scanners.
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