Emailing Tools to the International Space Station

[digitS']

"In September, Made In Space, Inc shipped a 3-D printer to the astronauts at ISS. In November it printed its first object -- a replacement part for itself."

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Steve

 

[Smart Red]

I heard that! I think that is so cool -- don't understand it one bit, but such a neat, impossible idea to wrap this dinosaur's tiny brain around.

Enter the food replicator from Star Trek? Print some pasta for me?

 

[digitS']

Surely that is possible, Red!

It must be just a matter of what you load in the "printer cartridge." Pasta flour!

I mean, if you can imagine the printer making raised letters -- alphabet soup!

Steve

 

[catjac1975]

I watch a lot of science on TV. I love the dreamy ideas that geniuses have. One day nanos will be sent to other planets and they will build whole cities before humans get there. So cool and hard to imagine.

 

[digitS']

Or, they will see the human colonists as a foreign invasion and ..

. counter attack!!



Steve

 

[catjac1975]

Or, they will see the human colonists as a foreign invasion and ..

. counter attack!!



Steve

With human history, could you blame them?