[QUOTE=BANNED USER;21870724]I would love a TF2 chess set.[/QUOTE]
Who wouldn't?
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I'd put on voices as I moved them around the board.
[QUOTE=nicatronTg;21870360]I saw this on 2057, except they were printing 3d heart valve replacements instead of models. Pretty sweet, if I had the cash, I'd get one.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I saw that too I thought it was complete bullshit, I never knew these were actually real
I just want hover chess already, hover chess with holograms so you can switch the characters, they are animated!
It's all cool until some idiot decides to build 3D printers capable of self-replication. Of course, they could only realistically build a portion of another printer (like half of it), and the other printer would need to continue 'building itself'.
I brought this up with my friends last year and we brought it up again a month or so ago during which time we crunched the numbers. The results were... disturbing.
Assuming that each printer can replicate at a rate of one per hour (as in one NEW printer per hour, so each hour the number of printers doubles), and they have an unlimited supply of matter to work with, and, going under the assumption that each printer occupies a volume of 1m^3 (1 metre long, tall and wide) within a week the ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM would be gone (within a week the printers occupy a sphere of radius 4.725 lightyears (you also have to accept the fact that the outer edge of the sphere would be able to expand faster than light for this to work).
At some point between the 1 week and 1 month mark (I didn't work out when, but it's some point between a week and a month) the ENTIRE VISIBLE UNIVERSE IS PACKED TO THE LAST CUBIC NANOMETRE WITH PRINTERS!
Then, presumably they'd continue multiplying until the density of printers was so high that they'd collapse into a black hole sucking something like all but one of the printers (and all but one of their thermodynamics-defying-matter-creating machines) into the black hole and into another universe, whereby they'd do the same thing (completely fill [b]that[/b] universe with printers, collapse into a black hole again, and end up in a THIRD universe).
Then, as in all of the universes a single printer would be left behind it would rebuild the endless printer army and eventually collapse AGAIN creating another universal-gateway.
Mankind would singlehandedly have destroyed everything... everywhere... forever.
[QUOTE=sltungle;21871796]It's all cool until some idiot decides to build 3D printers capable of self-replication. Of course, they could only realistically build a portion of another printer (like half of it), and the other printer would need to continue 'building itself'.
I brought this up with my friends last year and we brought it up again a month or so ago during which time we crunched the numbers. The results were... disturbing.
Assuming that each printer can replicate at a rate of one per hour (as in one NEW printer per hour, so each hour the number of printers doubles), and they have an unlimited supply of matter to work with, and, going under the assumption that each printer occupies a volume of 1m^3 (1 metre long, tall and wide) within a week the ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM would be gone (within a week the printers occupy a sphere of radius 4.725 lightyears (you also have to accept the fact that the outer edge of the sphere would be able to expand faster than light for this to work).
At some point between the 1 week and 1 month mark (I didn't work out when, but it's some point between a week and a month) the ENTIRE VISIBLE UNIVERSE IS PACKED TO THE LAST CUBIC NANOMETRE WITH PRINTERS!
Then, presumably they'd continue multiplying until the density of printers was so high that they'd collapse into a black hole sucking something like all but one of the printers (and all but one of their thermodynamics-defying-matter-creating machines) into the black hole and into another universe, whereby they'd do the same thing (completely fill [b]that[/b] universe with printers, collapse into a black hole again, and end up in a THIRD universe).
Then, as in all of the universes a single printer would be left behind it would rebuild the endless printer army and eventually collapse AGAIN creating another universal-gateway.
Mankind would singlehandedly have destroyed everything... everywhere... forever.[/QUOTE]
Well fuck that I'm moving to Canada.
A school nearby has one, we're visiting it to create some 3D models and print them.
I bet at least 3 penises will be printed that day.
[QUOTE=Skippy!;21871940]Well fuck that I'm moving to Canada.[/QUOTE]
:v: What, to prolong your life by a day or two?
I remembered operating one of these on my campus.
It was pretty fun to watch the machine work
We have one at my school, we're going to be allowed to use it very soon, for projects only though.
For a second, I thought the title said 30 Printers. I assumed the OP did something awesome with a bunch of printers. I leave in disappointment.
[QUOTE=DigiTech;21866175]My school has two of these, nothing new. You can't really print out stuff that high-quality on them though, because they have to set the machine in a way that makes it use a ton of plastic. You have the buy the plastic in cartridges, and according to my engineering design teacher, only the manufacturer of the machine sell them, and they're like $200 a cartridge.[/QUOTE]
You must go to a rich school then.
Yeah 3d printing isn't cheap at all.
I wish I had one next to my desk.
I can see it now. I could print 3d naked chicks!
[QUOTE=IamTehKings;21876127]I can see it now. I could print 3d naked chicks![/QUOTE]
Oh god... Them anime fans will go wild...
[url]www.shapeways.com[/url]
^A site where you can order 3d prints.
So late. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Oh my god,I want one.
I'd print the whole tf2 cast,yay!
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What's the price right now?
[QUOTE=Burger King !;21883557]Oh my god,I want one.
I'd print the whole tf2 cast,yay!
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What's the price right now?[/QUOTE]
For a 3d printer, probably at least a few thousand euros.
For the models themselves, I'd guess about 10-20 euros per model at shapeways, if they're well hollowed out (you pay per cm^3, so hollowing them out makes it cheaper) and around 10 cm high.
They're damn cool, but if I had $50,000 spare, I wouldn't spend it on one of these, that's for sure.
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