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"Towards a Star Trek-style Replicator"
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 6:59 pm
by Platonian
I thought you might find this article interesting as an example of "life imitating art":
NASA is funding a 3D food printer, and it'll start with pizza (The Verge)
Re: "Towards a Star Trek-style Replicator"
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 8:23 pm
by Teaos
I'm just waiting for the day that instead of having to replace the yellow ink cartradge I have to replace the cheese one.
Re: "Towards a Star Trek-style Replicator"
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 8:28 pm
by Griffin
Teaos wrote:I'm just waiting for the day that instead of having to replace the yellow ink cartradge I have to replace the cheese one.
Ahh, so thats why my printer won't work.
Re: "Towards a Star Trek-style Replicator"
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 9:06 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
A pizza-based replicator? Truly, this is a golden age.
Re: "Towards a Star Trek-style Replicator"
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 10:17 pm
by Don-Okay
I wonder about the base materials used and the consistency of the food.
Re: "Towards a Star Trek-style Replicator"
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 3:08 am
by Mikey
Doesn't matter - I'm from Jersey. No matter how good the thing is, the crust won't be crispy enough.
Re: "Towards a Star Trek-style Replicator"
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 10:17 pm
by McAvoy
Mikey wrote:Doesn't matter - I'm from Jersey. No matter how good the thing is, the crust won't be crispy enough.
This. Though I like crispy and burnt.
Re: "Towards a Star Trek-style Replicator"
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 2:58 am
by Captain Picard's Hair
So when we click the wrong button in the future, we'll end up with a pie with extra cheese delivered to a supervisor's desk after he asks for a report, and a bunch of paper when we try to print dinner. You'd better hope your boss loves pizza!
Re: "Towards a Star Trek-style Replicator"
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 4:06 am
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Or that he merely 'liked' pizza and the pie he gets pushes him over the edge into love.
Re: "Towards a Star Trek-style Replicator"
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 5:18 pm
by McAvoy
Could be worse you know. The machine goes rogue and turns people into pizza.
Sounds like a 80's movie....
Re: "Towards a Star Trek-style Replicator"
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 6:10 pm
by Captain Seafort
Captain Picard's Hair wrote:So when we click the wrong button in the future, we'll end up with a pie with extra cheese delivered to a supervisor's desk after he asks for a report, and a bunch of paper when we try to print dinner. You'd better hope your boss loves pizza!
Or it simply won't work, and you'll end up with something almost (but not quite) entirely unlike tea.
Re: "Towards a Star Trek-style Replicator"
Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:09 pm
by Mikey
Captain Seafort wrote:Captain Picard's Hair wrote:So when we click the wrong button in the future, we'll end up with a pie with extra cheese delivered to a supervisor's desk after he asks for a report, and a bunch of paper when we try to print dinner. You'd better hope your boss loves pizza!
Or it simply won't work, and you'll end up with something almost (but not quite) entirely unlike tea.
And everything else shuts down to devote processing power to the attempt.