(May 6, 2013 at 6:03 am)Dragonetti Wrote: Well it is far from a functional weapon.
It exploded with a rifle cartage.
It's a technology that is in a pretty early stage, as far as I know. We're entering what I would consider a beta testing phase, with people beginning to see what they can and can't do with it, and refinements and improvements will follow. I don't know about Chuck Schumer's claim that a person could "turn his garage into a gun factory" (was on the news last night) but it might only be a few years before something in that vein is possible.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
