Topic: ¡Science! (Read 65118 times)

Arc · « **on:** April 30, 2008, 12:57:29 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39VJP671LDY

Gentlemen, behold! Fabricated Corn!

NASA has been using machines like these so that tools can be created in galaxies, far, far away. Now that the consumer market is getting involved, the pirate industry just became that much more expansive.

Catloaf · « **Reply #1 on:** April 30, 2008, 03:42:12 PM »

I can't wait for bioengineers to get something like this and attempt to make living material and organisms. Also, if it could be used to make organs and such, it would be every hospital's new favorite machine.

I hope the final consumer version 100 years from now will be compatible with something like spore so that one could make a crazy pet ~~to kill your neighbors~~

Cannon · « **Reply #2 on:** April 30, 2008, 04:04:17 PM »

Someone take Catloaf's copy of The Fifth Element away from him.

Burrito Al Pastor · « **Reply #3 on:** April 30, 2008, 09:07:17 PM »

This is going to be the best thing ever for miniatures gaming.

sei · « **Reply #4 on:** April 30, 2008, 11:11:27 PM »

For games in which everything is a slime or goo elemental.

Burrito Al Pastor · « **Reply #5 on:** April 30, 2008, 11:55:42 PM »

Not at all. Look at the dragon at 2:40.

Classic · « **Reply #6 on:** May 01, 2008, 12:09:53 AM »

That dragon is from a far more expensive piece of equipment. If it could be made affordable in half the time, you'd be about ready to return to childhood, and game till you croak, I suppose.

The home-sized 3D printer also doesn't seem to have fine enough tools to do the kind of miniature work that I think most players have come to expect, even if you could give it a really fine nozzle plastic dispenser.

Sharkey · « **Reply #7 on:** May 01, 2008, 08:45:52 AM »

Also, there's the whole economics of scale thing. It's cheaper to make a lot of identical things on a dedicated setup to make one unique thing on something fancy. Which doesn't much matter when things are really, really cheap. Printing 2D stuff on personal printers is way more expensive per page than having assloads of copies made by a big press, but it's economical and necessary enough to be worth while. This still has to become way the hell cheaper, and there's still no clear, pressing need for most people to have such a thing.

Arc · « **Reply #8 on:** May 16, 2008, 02:27:00 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9JAk-WPZkk

Gentlemen, behold! Wings on Corn!

Wonder how updraft is handled. If it maintains well, then we have a new form of urban transportation. And plenty of recreations of the first pages of Kick-Ass #1 to follow.

Brentai · « **Reply #9 on:** May 16, 2008, 04:31:26 PM »

Quote from: Arc on May 16, 2008, 02:27:00 PM

If it maintains well, then we have a new form of urban transportation.

Just what I need. Rednecks flashing their highbeams at me IN THE FUCKING AIR.

Arc · « **Reply #10 on:** May 25, 2008, 07:54:28 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbwaYEyIdU8

We're back you Martian sonsabitches. Lock 'n load!

Saturn · « **Reply #11 on:** May 26, 2008, 12:48:21 AM »

Quote from: Burrito Al Pastor on April 30, 2008, 09:07:17 PM

This is going to be the best thing ever for miniatures gaming.

and even WITH A 3d printer that could match the detail of current miniatures, it's still cheaper than buying from games workshop.

Shinra · « **Reply #12 on:** May 26, 2008, 03:57:04 PM »

Quote from: Mr_Saturn on May 26, 2008, 12:48:21 AM

Quote from: Burrito Al Pastor on April 30, 2008, 09:07:17 PM
This is going to be the best thing ever for miniatures gaming.
and even WITH A 3d printer that could match the detail of current miniatures, it's still cheaper than buying from games workshop.

80 dollars for an issue of reader's digest and 12 one inch tall pieces of plastic stamped on a metal dye in a third world country.

Guild · « **Reply #13 on:** June 09, 2008, 12:04:52 AM »

I'm still not really sure what the difference between Real Life and Real World is, but if this needs to be moved apologies for the misthreading.

Cow bacteria to be replaced with kangaroo bacteria to cut down on methane production.

Thad · « **Reply #14 on:** June 13, 2008, 05:29:48 PM »

Also, mixing cattle feed with cashew oil can reduce methane in burps by 90%.

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #15 on:** June 14, 2008, 01:02:30 AM »

Not exactly a cheap solution, then.

Guild · « **Reply #16 on:** June 14, 2008, 01:16:40 AM »

Can you put a price on global warming?

Zach · « **Reply #17 on:** July 01, 2008, 11:25:30 AM »

Turns out, the Earth is crying.

Probably because of something that you did.

Brentai · « **Reply #18 on:** July 01, 2008, 01:37:19 PM »

Oh fuck no. The hell any part of Cosmo Canyon is turning out to be true. You fuckshits.

Norondor · « **Reply #19 on:** July 01, 2008, 02:50:09 PM »

re-un-ion

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