26 Foot Long Boat 3D Printed In 100,000 Different Pieces

First time accepted submitter Talk Prizes writes Hung-Chih Peng, a Taiwanese artist, has decided to 3D print a boat measuring 26 feet in length. The piece, called "The Deluge – Noah's Ark" is a twisted wrecked boat which he had to 3D print in 100,000 different pieces and then glue it all together. "...The Deluge is Peng’s way of showing the inability that humans have exhibited in rectifying uncontrollable catastrophic challenges. Climate change, ecological crises, and environmental pollution are all changes that this planet is facing, yet seemingly humans do not have a way to correct these problems. The work is meant as a metaphor for showing the battle being waged by Mother Nature on the accelerated development of industrialized civilization."

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I see now

[Brett Buck]

The work is meant as a metaphor for showing the battle being waged by Mother Nature on the accelerated development of industrialized civilization."

    Ah, so he's an idiot.

Re:I see now

[Etherwalk]

The work is meant as a metaphor for showing the battle being waged by Mother Nature on the accelerated development of industrialized civilization."

    Ah, so he's an idiot.

Nah, he has just decided to fight for the environment... by printing lots and lots of plastic.

Re:I see now

[radtea]

Ah, so he's an idiot.

Pretty much. He seems unaware of the huge selection bias--and logical contradiction--implied by the claim about "the inability that humans have exhibited in rectifying uncontrollable catastrophic challenges"

We've dealt with a huge number of challenges successfully, but a pretentious git like this would never even be aware of them, so his estimate of our track-record is off by light years.

Bacterial disease: rectified.

Unwanted pregnancy: rectified.

Polio: rectified.

Smallpox: rectified.

Growing enough food to feed ourselves: rectified.

And so on.

Sure there are hard problems left. They will be solved by engineers, scientists, bureaucrats and businesspeople willing to take risks and test ideas by publicly testing them via systematic observation, controlled experiment and Bayesian inference, not pretentious gits telling us how awful we all are.

Re:Only 26 feet long

[ArcadeMan]

A shrink ray... honestly, that's just stupid.

He's going to print miniature versions of animals with his small army of 3D printers, of course.

Re:He's Creating What He Despises.

[ArcadeMan]

You can't sit in a forest for a year without eating nothing. At some point, you're going to lie down instead of sitting.

On the upside, at some point you're going to stop using oxygen and later on you will become compost, so I guess that's good for the environment.

Yup. And a shitty artist... but a decent modeller.

[denzacar]

His statements in TFA are a collection of fallacies and nonsense.
Navel gazing until you start seeing the world through your own ass is not art. Ask any proctologist.

"Human beings are unable to return to the unspoiled living environment of the past, and have become victims of their own endeavors. In the biblical time, Noah's Ark is the last resort for humans to escape from the termination of the world. However, if Noah's Ark sinks, where is the hope of the human race? If Noah's Ark, a symbol of mankind salvation, becomes just as a shipwreck, human and nonhuman were placed in an equal position. Human subject is losing his predominance as the supreme center of the world." ...
"It is certain that, no matter what circumstance will turn out, there will certainly be a disaster beforehand," explains Peng. "Destruction and construction always grow and demise together. We will once again encounter the problem of moral degeneration."

And the author of the article seems to be in the same category of faux-thinkers.

It depicts a time when the Anthropocene period (a period when human activities have/had significant global impact on Earthâ(TM)s ecosystems), is replaced by the Mechanocene period when machinery begins taking over some of the jobs.

Re:Noah's ark????

[DigiShaman]

After a 3,700 year old clay tablet was translated, it's now believed that Noah's ark was nothing more than a giant coracle. It's basically a giant around raft made out of wicker and extremely stable in water. Bloody brilliant when you think about it. Back then, materials (lumber) were limited and the idea of a large keel boat isn't based on any text, but rather baseless assumptions.