Re:Factories in Space
by yboris on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @10:30AM
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Seems like 3D printing organs in space would be really useful and might make financial sense given their importance to people.
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Any particular reason to believe that "in space" would make 3D printing of organs substantially easier?
Because gravity is a bitch when making squishy things. They like to collapse under their own weight before they can harden. Imagine a pipe that is rigid when fluid is flowing though it, but collapses and sticks together when none is present. There would be a massive amount of difficult in attempting to print/build said pipe under pressure.
In zero gravity you don't have to worry about pressurizing it, but you do exchange a new set of difficulties.
Re:Factories in Space
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @11:55AM
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> gravity is a bitch when making squishy things. They like to collapse under their own weight before they can harden.
It’s much cheaper to master fluid suspension.
Re:Factories in Space
by LispSporks22 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @02:11PM
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I imagine a whole new wave of “innovation” for VC, it’s like Uber, but in space
PIGS [1] in spaaaaace.
Re:Factories in Space
by jjoonathan on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @02:51PM
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Oh, there will probably be several booms and busts. Stocks will go to the moon, and then back to earth, and then to the moon, etc. So it goes.