This breakthrough will finally enable us to realize our childhood dreams of being fully outfitted as....the ICEMAN!! One of these babies strapped to your hands and you'll be out building ice bridges and flying around with Firestar (and spiderman, but he's gotta come up with his own tech, natch) in no time!
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the potential this has for space travel....I can see one of these things being used on spacecraft in order to build tools and equipment needed during long flights. The guys on the ground design a replacement part and beam it up to the ship to be built by this thing (first: out of ice. second: make a mold around it out of clay, or something stiff but maleable. third: fill the mold with something more permenant.)
Then, if the replacement parts don't work, send the guys some Frozen Margarita's, they're gonna need 'em.
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This breakthrough will finally enable us to realize our childhood dreams of being fully outfitted as....the ICEMAN!! One of these babies strapped to your hands and you'll be out building ice bridges and flying around with Firestar (and spiderman, but he's gotta come up with his own tech, natch) in no time! I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the potential this has for space travel....I can see one of these things being used on spacecraft in order to build tools and equipment needed during long flights. The guys on the ground design a replacement part and beam it up to the ship to be built by this thing (first: out of ice. second: make a mold around it out of clay, or something stiff but maleable. third: fill the mold with something more permenant.) Then, if the replacement parts don't work, send the guys some Frozen Margarita's, they're gonna need 'em.