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NASA Tests Feasibility of 3D Printing on the Moon and Other Planets
ErnieKey writes A major application of 3d printing that could revolutionize space travel would be using 3d printers to create structures on non-terrestrial bodies like the moon, other planets, and even asteroids. Researchers from NASA's Kennedy Space Center have been working to develop solutions to materials issues, and recently presented initial findings on the potential for using in-situ materials like basalt for 3D printing. Their innovative method is based on only using in-situ supplies, and not materials that need to be brought into space.
Fluids (the stuff generally coming out of the print heads of most 3-D printers) just don't behave the same at <.001g as they do at 1 g.
Granted these technologies can be accomplished on the various places described; but. It is still very hard to do it if one does not go there.
WTF is "in-situ"? Is that even in english because that is the first time in my life that I see that.
Here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I... Please read that...
How fucking hard is it to just write "on site" instead?
You are an illiterate moron. I have seen, and written, "in situ" thousands of times. It is a standard English term.
"On site" does not mean the same as "in situ". If I bring a box of tools to a worksite, they are now "on site" but they are not "in situ", since they didn't originate there.
Please understand that in-situ is an english phrase that came from latin. It does not mean the same as on-site. On-site just means the stuff is there, it could have been put there by an earlier mission. In-situ means the stuff is in the place it was originally found.
Printing on the surface of the moon would make for a really cool billboard.
In fairness, the "in-situ" materials are the components inside the 3D printer, not materials in the immediate vicinity.
If you RTF, the pictures are of 3D printed poop piles. Either it is joke, or a commentary about the utility of 3D printing. Either way, it pretty much sums up my opinion about most 3D printing hype.
The only thing dead here is the mass between your ears.
The saddest thing about morons is that that they think their moronic nature is a matter of pride, and not shame.
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Because of these issues, researchers at NASA KSC have been studying a very intuitive method of 3D printing on the surfaces of other planets. Their method is very similar to that of large industrial selective laser sintering 3D printers, which lay down layers of material that are then sintered (melted and hardened) by heat lasers.
They are not talking about using liquids at all
from their non-terrestrial garden?
So you must be around four years old then.
Enough of this 3D printing malarkey. When are they going to find out if ants can be trained to sort tiny screws in space?
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Lingua latina fuit, longe tempore, lingua scientiae. Isaacus Newtonus, Iohannes Keplerus, Galilaeus Galilaei, Franciscus Bacon, Leonhardus Eulerus, inter alios, opera omnia latina scripserunt. Ideo, non estote amantes ignorantiae, nec superbi in ignorantia vestra.
In soviet russia the government regulates the companies.
Knowledge is not intelligence. If I started to reply to you in Esperanto and you didn't understand a word, would that mean you're a fucking moron?
Latin is a dead language, please understand that.
People keep repeating this line ad-nauseum, spouting 'language is dead', etcetera. They might have bona-fide complaints, but maybe they're an alias for a different annoyance, perhaps that they didn't pay enough attention in school circa 9th grade to maintain a simple conversation on a site known to attract tech-lovers. Ergo this problem will not be solved quickly.
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This is an English language website. The term in-situ is something that I would expect at least an educated person from an English language country to understand perfectly. There is a large amount of the English language a none native speaker might not understand, that is no reason not to use it on an English language website. If there is something you don't understand Google if heavens sake.
I am quite sure if I demanded that the French used simple French on their websites so I could understand it they would go positively apoplectic.
The most hilarious thing about this is that many people arguing that "Latin is a dead language" actually don't know what "dead language" means. Judging from what you seem to be suggesting, you don't know that either.
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Latin is also a lingua franca, a common language to use among people who speak different languages. All intellectuals know some Latin but because there are no native speakers, nobody's living language is being favored.
Get a better life.
Mostly random stuff.
Well played. Somebody mod this guy up.
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I am a non-native English speaker. "in-situ" and "on site" just aren't fucking interchangeable. Anyone complaining about the use of such terms must be lacking in education.
I studied chemistry in a non-English-speaking country and in situ was a known term. It means that a specific compound needed in a reaction is made in the same vessel as the synthesis continues, not separated and transferred to another flask. Example: reacting sodium with ethanol to produce sodium ethoxide followed by transesterification.
On site would in deed mean that something was prepared in the same laboratory or even the same fume cupboard.
What a stupid headline. To my knowledge, there are no 3D printers physically on the moon or other planets for NASA to test with.
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If we were all communicating by hand-written letters two hundred years ago, you would still loook it up in a dictionary first.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
ad nauseAM. C'mon guys, get your English case endings right!
Except that in-situ is an English word. It's origins are Latin, but then again, so is a vast amount of the English vocabulary.
We have these things called dictionaries. Rather than demonstrating intense stupidity, inform yourself first.
Oh right, this is /., where ignorance is a matter of pride.
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Latin or not, it is a technical term commonly used by NASA known to anybody who saw one or two NASA videos on the frac king YouTube.
If you want to make such a big deal of using latin words (or German, French, Saxxon, Norwegian or whatever), start with not using shortcuts such as etc, ie, am, pm, all the latin words commonly used in English and end with not using English at all.
What's it like getting your ass kicked by apk + downmodding to hide it 20x http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... ?