Mars Base Design Competition Open To Non-Scientific Professionals

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday June 8, 2014 @12:26AM from the print-a-home-for-a-nice-martian dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MakerBot, in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is hosting a competition for the design of a future Mars base. The competition is open to any Thingiverse account holder regardless of professional or educational background. Winners will be chosen by a subjective panel of JPL and MakerBot employees based on scientific feasibility, creativity, and printability. Contest ends June 12, and contestants have to be at least 13 years old. The first place winner will receive a MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D printer and three spools of MakerBot Filament. The second place winner will receive two spools, and the third place winner will receive one spool. All three will have their design featured on Thingiverse." You can also browse the entries so far.

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Re:Boycott makerBot by Anonymous Coward · 2014-06-08 02:52 · Score: -1, Troll

Thanks very much for the press release MakerBot PR guy!
Re:How about... by DNS-and-BIND · 2014-06-08 07:26 · Score: -1, Troll

Stop citing fiction as fact. Just...stop. Don't do it ever again, you are giving science a bad name. Why do you think it is called science FICTION, you moron. Never, ever again participate in a discussion like this, you are harming our cause.

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