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Turtle Receives First-Ever 3D Printed Titanium Jaw Implant of Its Kind
ErnieKey writes: A wounded loggerhead turtle showed up in Turkey, with significant damage to its upper and lower jaws. It was taken to the Sea Turtle Research, Rescue and Rehabilitation Center at Pamukkale University (PAU) for help. The PAU team, working with BTech Innovation, was able to make a 3D printed titanium jaw implant for the turtle. The operation was a success, and the patient — the world's first sea turtle to receive a 3D printed implant — is recovering.
Logo will be in 3D now?
or Michelangelo?
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He fainted when he saw the bill...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
our new titanium-jawed turtle overlords. Ruuuuuuuun... very slooooowly.
Your own link states that the turtle was used for meat and is legal game (with limits) where that one was killed. Sounds to me like it's in the same category of hunting deer, turkeys, or any other wild animal that's then used at least in part for food.
I wouldn't kill a turtle myself, but I do eat beef and other delicious meats regularly. According to the Snopes article, the incident depicted is credibly alleged to be a legal hunting kill in Louisiana wherein the hunter ate the meat. Snopes provides evidence that it wasn't a casual killing with a sawsall like the hysterical Facebook post claimed, but rather a couple of 22 bullets in the turtle's head. What's depicted is the butchering process -- which by the way is just as ugly when it's a cow, we're just not used to seeing it.
So simmer down a bit!
isn't this one of david icke's predictions of markers of beginning the end of the world ?
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I like turtles.
All the 3d printing printing aside.... That is now the most BADASS looking turtle that I have ever seen.
If you tell them you're a turtle, maybe they'll 3dprint a damn for you to give.
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...after they release that turtle back into the wild.
I bet we start seeing reports of ships with bites taken out of them by titanium jaws!
I understand extrusion machines, but how can you print titanium?
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Sounds like this turtle has a better health plan than I do. If I could find out who his provider is, I would switch plans in a snap - but his insurer seems to be hidden behind a maze of shell companies.
So knowing how to live off the land is simply foolish? Knowing how to track, kill and prepare game is simply foolishness? The only people that should have this knowledge are ranchers, butchers and cooks? I don't think so. I think it's useful to know how to use a compass; how to make fires; etc...
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We can rebuild him. Better, stronger, not quite as slow as most turtles.
Yes, let's all stop hunting deer in Indiana and Michigan. The ...something will eat them and they won't starve, get sick, and destroy our crops, smash into our cars, invade our lawns and bring diseased ticks. We killed all the predators a hundred years before I was born. We are the only thing keeping the herd in check.
How is picking up a slab of beef and the store morally different than taking down a few deer?
You can't 3D print titanium. I think they mean they CNC'ed it out of a block of titanium. That technology has been around for decades. It's how they make most expensive alloy rims for tires.
the world's first sea turtle to receive a 3D printed implant
Turtles have come a long way. I suppose it had to happen sometime.
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Isn't the special? People over there are dying left and right, and they're saving fucking turtles.
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they could have saved some money by using plastic; scientist not so smart han ;-)
I killed around a dozen deer in 2013. One of them did $25,000 worth of damage to my truck.
I was almost literally the only guy at work who didn't hunt, so in 2014 I decided to go deer hunting. I figured I may as well eat a few of the damn things before they got splattered in the process of damaging motor vehicles.
It was a pretty radical paradigm shift for me, I have to tell you. I used to tow the liberal treehugger party line about "caveman blood lust" and all that. I looked down my nose at all the disgusting redneck vermin in my midst. I have to say that having gone hunting really changed my outlook on caveman blood lust.
For one thing, it's a LOT more difficult to kill one of those damn things than you'd think. I invested on the order of $1,000 and around 100 hours, and I never fired a shot. My hunting partner, who was showing me the ins and outs of deer hunting woodcraft, did shoot a small buck, and he walked me through gutting it. That was interesting. Deer are made out of stuff that looks and feels just like meat from the grocery store, except it's very warm.
They come apart almost like someone designed them to be used for food. It's pretty easy to remove the guts, and what's left is a big shell of meat and bones that even has a membrane separating it from all the internal stuff. I guess that would be the peritoneum, but when you look at a peritoneum in that context, it's just a convenient barrier that separates all the pissing and shitting parts from the tasty muscle. Fascinating.
The whole caveman blood lust thing is hard to describe. All your senses are heightened, and you feel like a predator. I see why guys who are much less repressed than I am live and breathe this stuff. My scrotum is too empty to really get into the whole chest pounding animal lust thing, and I'm probably not going to become an avid hunter. I'm going to go out again next year, and try my luck though. I'd like to eat one of these things one good time, just for the hell of it. If I didn't eat it, somebody would eventually hit it with a car anyway.
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