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Post by THX1138 » Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:39 pm

Printing spacecraft in orbit, spare parts for them or a lunar base with these printers and having robots do the assembling may be a tad into the future but this technology has me very excited, very excited indeed.
NASA Turns to 3D Printing for Self-Building Spacecraft ...
3D printers may soon be used to print food, spaceship parts ...
Print me up one NCC1701 please and when it’s propulsion becomes reality she will be ready and waiting :D

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Post by Beyond » Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:48 pm

Print food :?: :?: Doughnuts and cakes and pies without the calories :?: :?: 8-) very 8-)
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Post by BMAONE23 » Sat Jun 01, 2013 9:02 pm

THX1138 wrote:Printing spacecraft in orbit, spare parts for them or a lunar base with these printers and having robots do the assembling may be a tad into the future but this technology has me very excited, very excited indeed.
NASA Turns to 3D Printing for Self-Building Spacecraft ...
3D printers may soon be used to print food, spaceship parts ...
Print me up one NCC1701 please and when it’s propulsion becomes reality she will be ready and waiting :D
As an aside
I thought it would be intriguing to have a Star Fleet vacation. Design and build a vacation spot around Star Trek where you could tour Star Fleet HQ and interact with different species then board a shuttlecraft that takes you to replica Star Ships like all permeations of the Enterprise and Voyager (of course temporarily grounded for maintenance) Then you could stay the week in an Enterprise or Voyager State Room, enjoy drinks or dining in 10 forward, crawl through Jefferies tubes. Ride the Turbo Lift to tour Engineering, the Shuttle Bay, or the Bridge. They could even simulate, through the use of monitors placed over viewports and the main view screen, a launch into space with trips to local planets. Say a real time Warp 7 trip to Mars and Jupiter and Saturn.

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Re: 3-D Printing

Post by Beyond » Sat Jun 01, 2013 9:21 pm

Wait-a-minute... they didn't use warp speed in the solar system. It's too small.
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Post by stephen63 » Sun Jun 02, 2013 2:00 am

Do 3D Androids Dream of 3D Electric Sheep?

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Post by Chris Peterson » Sun Jun 02, 2013 2:57 am

BMAONE23 wrote:I thought it would be intriguing to have a Star Fleet vacation. Design and build a vacation spot around Star Trek where you could tour Star Fleet HQ and interact with different species then board a shuttlecraft that takes you to replica Star Ships like all permeations of the Enterprise and Voyager (of course temporarily grounded for maintenance) Then you could stay the week in an Enterprise or Voyager State Room, enjoy drinks or dining in 10 forward, crawl through Jefferies tubes. Ride the Turbo Lift to tour Engineering, the Shuttle Bay, or the Bridge. They could even simulate, through the use of monitors placed over viewports and the main view screen, a launch into space with trips to local planets. Say a real time Warp 7 trip to Mars and Jupiter and Saturn.
The heck with crawling through Jeffries tubes. I'll just spend the week on Risa.
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Post by THX1138 » Sun Jun 02, 2013 9:06 am

Beyond / 8-) very 8-) Beyonderland ??????
BMAONE23 / Wow :idea:
stephen63 / 3-D electric sheep / I'm thinking maybe yes
Chris Peterson / Risa, I like that

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Re: 3-D Printing

Post by neufer » Tue Jun 18, 2013 2:03 pm

Beyond wrote:
Print food :?: :?: Doughnuts and cakes and pies without the calories :?: :?: 8-) very 8-)
I fail to see the connection to anything gastronomical.
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Re: 3-D Printing

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neufer wrote:
Beyond wrote:
Print food :?: :?: Doughnuts and cakes and pies without the calories :?: :?: 8-) very 8-)
I fail to see the connection to anything gastronomical.
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neufer wrote:
Beyond wrote:
Print food :?: :?: Doughnuts and cakes and pies without the calories :?: :?: 8-) very 8-)
I fail to see the connection to anything gastronomical.
Anything necronomical?
Just call me "geck" because "zilla" is like a last name.

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Post by stephen63 » Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:51 pm

THX1138 wrote:Printing spacecraft in orbit, spare parts for them or a lunar base with these printers and having robots do the assembling may be a tad into the future but this technology has me very excited, very excited indeed.
NASA Turns to 3D Printing for Self-Building Spacecraft ...
3D printers may soon be used to print food, spaceship parts ...
Print me up one NCC1701 please and when it’s propulsion becomes reality she will be ready and waiting :D
http://phys.org/news/2013-06-3d-tiny-batteries.html
There seems to be almost no limit to this technology.

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Re: 3-D Printing

Post by Beyond » Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:14 pm

SHAZAM :!: That's downright upright amazing :!:
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Post by geckzilla » Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:17 pm

Attach them to insects! Make them do our bidding!
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Post by neufer » Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:23 pm

geckzilla wrote:
Anything necronomical?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon wrote:
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<<The Necronomicon is a fictional grimoire appearing in the stories by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers. It was first mentioned in Lovecraft's 1924 short story "The Hound", written in 1922, though its purported author, the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred, had been quoted a year earlier in Lovecraft's "The Nameless City". Among other things, the work contains an account of the Old Ones, their history, and the means for summoning them.

In 1973, Owlswick Press issued an edition of the Necronomicon written in an indecipherable, apparently fictional language known as "Duriac". This was a limited edition of 348. The book contains a brief introduction by L. Sprague de Camp.

A hoax version of the Necronomicon, edited by George Hay, appeared in 1978 and included an introduction by the paranormal researcher and writer Colin Wilson. David Langford described how the book was prepared from a computer analysis of a discovered "cipher text" by Dr. John Dee. Wilson also wrote a story, "The Return of the Lloigor", in which the Voynich manuscript turns out to be a copy of the Necronomicon.>>
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