From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 16:49:25 MST
I'd be really surprised if you could print a standard lightbulb. Can you
print a clear polymer strong enough to maintain the evacuated interior? Can
you evacuate the interior? I'm assuming you can't print layers of vacuum :-)
Emlyn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damien Broderick [mailto:thespike@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Friday, 10 January 2003 6:23
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: RE: TECH: 3D Printers == Santa Claus machines
>
>
> Robert J. Bradbury:
>
> > "Gadget printer" promises industrial revolution
> > Duncan Graham-Rowe, Jan 3, 2003
> > http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99993238
> >
> > The interesting thing (at least to me) is that if something
> > built this way breaks, there is no way in hell you are going
> > to be able to fix it.
>
> One interesting thing (at least to me) is that this buggers
> up Eliezer's
> example of an impossible mental object (if I recall this correctly): a
> triangular light bulb. Just print it and switch it on.
>
> Damien Broderick
>
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