With all these advances in 3D printing, Robotics and AI, would it be possible or even profitable to have a web enabled service where you submit a 3D model to a service like Shapeways, you see your 3D object printed, picked up by the robot and packed in a box to be shipped to you?

I watched some stuff getting 3D printed at the DC hackerspace and its really slow right now. So maybe they can time lapse that part of the job.

Also who has a $500-600 3D printer kit, I never seem to find these, always $900 or more.

I often think about an SUV conversion project, my 2004 TrailBlazer was a very popular model as was the blazer before it with many still on the roads today. These body on frame Trucks are a dangerous safety hazard.

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/are-suvs-more-dangerous-than-minivans/

I can't find it now, but there was a pretty famous article about SUVs how users wanted to be up high, and have plenty of metal around them, as well as lots of cupholders. The height invites rollovers, the metal makes them terrible at avoiding crashes, and the owners died or were maimed hundreds of times more often than minivan owners. The models compared were the Ford Explorer and Aerostar minivan.

For a long time body on frame SUVs were not tested for safety, unlike the minivans.

So you're better off from a safety perspective with a Crossover SUV or a minivan.

Meanwhile we'd all be safer and more efficient if all the body on frame SUVs dissappeared tomorrow, so making them more efficient keeps us all worried about getting crashed into by an SUVs so people don't opt for the smaller cars in any great numbers.

I had my crossover Equinox in the shop for 2 weeks and the delaership loaned me an HHR, a boxy little minivan-car sorta thing. It felt remarkably like my Equinox in so far as size, seating, cargo and modest comfort, but it was lower to the ground, had way less materials the doors sounded hollow when you shut them. It also seemed peppier, it got around town great and accellerated much faster than my Equinox or Trailblazer both of which have larger 6 cylinder engines. I drove the thing for 2 weeks normal commuting and errands on 7 gallons of gas as opposed to 14 gallons in my Equinox, couldn't guess on my Trailblazer we try not to use it outside of commuting to public transportation and big truck jobs.

So from a safety perspective you should be looking to refit a crossover or unibody style SUV, but from an efficiency perspective you should rethink the idea of an SUV that's towing an extra ton of vehicle it doesn't really need.

I've seen a lot of the college acapella groups where folks have posted videos to YouTube, have you tried to record your groups singing and posted it to Facebook?

I mean there it is, just another plan to extort money, which then gets added to the product, which we pay for and somebody else is chipping off a little bit for themselves.

There are problems with people noticing brake lights, stopping and then resuming flow that computers will not have. MOST of the traffic problems are with people stopping, starting and not knowing how to merge with traffic and other drivers not letting them merge. All of these things will go away and while the actual capacity of the road won't change, it will seem like it has increased because people will get off the roads quicker and the capacity is used more efficiently.

Phantom traffic jams can last for hours, you seem hopelessly stuck going 5 mph or less and then over one hill and its back up to highway speed for no reason, these are Phantom trafic jams, the original source of the problem has been gone for hours, but the backup caused by the backup has caused more backup its like a zombie process for humans, only computers won't have it.

In TFA they say that people looking for Exo-planets are looking for ones with close orbits. They believe now that because of tidal forces those planets would have hotter temps and not be candidates for a Earth-like planet.

Looking for close orbit planets is a fine way to find exoplanets.

What they should say is that looking for close orbit planets is not a good way to find earthlike planets with liquid water.

Now take in your head the originally believed habitable zone, you are going to have to shorten that on the side closer to the star. One would not necessarily extend that zone an equal distance away from the star as planets not in close orbits won't get the extra heating.

I mean if we can treat the diesase, it'll be only slightly scarier than e-coli.

So there I was minding my own business and Th'umm there goes my sword.

Doesn't Google use 12Vdc straight to their Motherboards, they have 12Vdc batteries for each server, and everything that needs 5Vdc gets power from the motherboard and not a power supply.

I would assume FB is trying to use the same equipment, I don't know if 48Vdc is as prominent on the server side.

So a one time event that you can walk away from your body will eventually recover from, but protected exposure to low dosages is a constant battle for your immune system.

And again they lied to us, no superpowers.

Liquid Oxygen and Hydrogen were burned by the shuttle engines and can be recycled over and over again by introducing sunlight into the perpetual motion device.

No need for precious hydrocarbons to be wasted on space.

Hopefully a few weeks isn't too long to forget their previous ruling.

Get an installer to bring out a Solar Pathfinder and get an estimate.

http://www.solarpathfinder.com/?id=mxhu3Rj5

The specially designed dome and template inside the dome let them take a picture of the reflection from your skyline and trees on the dome, their software analyzes the picture and tells you what your solar potential is.

I saw it on This New House and have no affiliation with the company.

I take my wife there periodically for brunch (Elevensies or Second Breakfast?).

I like their pasta Carbonarra, they also have a wine tasting bar, but I've never been in that side of the building.

The Menu has some little black and white line drawings of trees and such that remind you of the shire a bit, but aside from that, there is nothing Tolkein infringing going on there. Maybe one of the salads has has a Hobbit name.