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Post by macdoc » Fri Mar 10, 2023 11:11 pm

We are living in a sci-fi world :prof:
The World’s First 3D-Printed Rocket Is About to Launch
Relativity Space’s attempt to reach orbit heralds the increasing use of 3D printing in the space sector.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-worlds- ... tm_term=P2

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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Mar 10, 2023 11:46 pm

macdoc wrote:
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We are living in a sci-fi world :prof:
Yeah, Snow Crash. :tea:
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Post by macdoc » Sat Mar 11, 2023 12:54 am

Indeed ....brilliant especially since it was 30 years agov :o
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:07 pm

I think The Diamond Age is an even better book, but Snow Crash was not just a prescient critique of 90s America, it now seems to have been adopted as a social and economic manual for the hi-tech oligarchs who call themselves the 'long termists'.
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Post by macdoc » Sat Mar 11, 2023 7:44 pm

Snow Crash is such a romp but yeah Diamond Age also brilliant ....the guy can write.
This is perhaps the most prescient novel I've come across.
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I'm hoping Ministry for the Future proves to be more so.
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meanwhile in the real world we are printing orbital rockets now :thinks:

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Post by macdoc » Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:10 pm

The time has come the Walrus said....
Has the 3D printing revolution finally arrived?
Car engines, bespoke medicines, organs for transplant, food, fashion and now even a whole street of houses… Is the all-conquering promise of 3D printing finally coming true?
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Post by rasetsu » Wed Mar 15, 2023 12:23 pm

Rapid surge in highly contagious killer fungus poses new threat to amphibians across Africa
Mass fungus infections that drive populations worldwide to near-collapse don't just occur in science fiction. Chytridiomycosis, the worst vertebrate disease in recorded history, has already wiped out hundreds of species of amphibians around the world. Due to a large part to this fungal disease, 41% of amphibians are currently threatened with extinction. Only species living in Africa seemed to have been relatively spared from the scourge of chytridiomycosis—at least so far.

Now, a study in Frontiers in Conservation Science has shown that this reprieve was likely temporary: The results show that the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), the pathogen that causes chytridiomycosis, is now firmly established throughout Africa. It may so far have been overlooked there, but it is likely that the pathogen will spread further and cause epizootics across Africa in the near future.

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Post by Svartalf » Wed Mar 15, 2023 4:16 pm

and amphibians eat insects, disease carrying ones among the lot, so they better not neglect that.

Also, isn't that one coming from Brazil or somewhere like that? meaning African species are likely utterly defenseless...
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Post by JimC » Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:27 pm

It has also caused a lot of grief to Australian frogs...
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Post by macdoc » Thu Mar 16, 2023 9:52 pm

Mostly spread from eager biologists tramping it into their biome. The frog doth protest.
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Post by macdoc » Fri Mar 17, 2023 10:35 pm

More sensible approach to getting out there
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Post by macdoc » Thu Mar 23, 2023 4:15 am

very cool....pardon the pun
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Post by rasetsu » Thu Mar 23, 2023 12:28 pm

I read they detected neutrinos.

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Post by pErvinalia » Thu Mar 23, 2023 11:17 pm

Been detecting neutrinos for decades.
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Post by macdoc » Fri Mar 24, 2023 1:52 am

They even have flavours and some change in mid flight :read: :dunno:
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