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3D Printers To Save Hermit Crabs
Shareable writes "Makerbot just launched Project Shellter, which will leverage the Makerbot community's network of 5,000 3D printers to make shells for hermit crabs — which face a species-threatening, man-made shell shortage (they inhabit abandoned shells)."
Perhaps it could be named "Project bash"?
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
FTFA:
With a shell shortage, hermit crabs around the world are being forced to stick their butts into bottles, shotgun shells, and anything else they can find.
I keep tellin' them pesky neighborhood ranch association folks that it ain't no trash in my front yard. That there's a Hermit Crab Sanctuary.
And them crabs keeps their kids off my lawn.
At least I think there's still a lawn down there below the trash.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
...Why not Zoidberg?
(especially since the episode where Zoidberg finds a shell has some of the best quick gags in the series.)
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
Mass production doesn't allow for the creative preferences of the crab population. By establishing a reference model shell standard as a starting point, all manner of customization can then be offered as upgrades - multiple rooms, fancy foyers, etc. Although perhaps not every crab should look for the upscale options, with some clever financing alternatives it should be possible to create an open ended boom in the marketplace and enable crabs of all means to look forward to ever rising valuations.
But.. but.. but... it helps me expunge some of the guilt I feel because I live in a first world country.