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I want me a printed moon house.
February 1, 2013 at 12:52 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21293258
Quote:Architects Fosters and Partners have revealed designs for a building on the Moon that could be constructed from material already on its surface.
An inflatable structure would be transported from Earth, then covered with a shell built by 3D printers.
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RE: I want me a printed moon house.
February 1, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Would make going down the shops to buy some milk a bit more difficult. Unless we send cows to the moon. MOON-COWS!
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RE: I want me a printed moon house.
February 1, 2013 at 6:23 pm
hmmmm 3D print DNA... Create life.... become half-god (the other half would require immortality)
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RE: I want me a printed moon house.
February 1, 2013 at 9:59 pm
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Can a 3d printer print a 3d printer?
Print a copy of your younger self every so often?
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RE: I want me a printed moon house.
February 2, 2013 at 4:39 am
(February 1, 2013 at 9:59 pm)Stue Denim Wrote: Can a 3d printer print a 3d printer?
Print a copy of your younger self every so often?
If you could tinker with the design I'd take a little off the middle.
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RE: I want me a printed moon house.
February 2, 2013 at 11:29 am
(February 1, 2013 at 4:20 pm)Insanity x Wrote: Would make going down the shops to buy some milk a bit more difficult. Unless we send cows to the moon. MOON-COWS!
It might take a while to iron out all the bugs:
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'