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Comment plastic's old and busted, hot metal is new hotness (Score 2) 230

geeze, just print the parts in wax and then do green sand or investment casting of whatever metal is suitable.
You savages are capable of melting metal, aren't you?!

Design of a open source robot to automate the metal casting process is left as an exercise for the student.

Comment Re:There might be hope for a decent adaptation (Score 5, Insightful) 331

Don't forget that was one of the real arguments for the revolution.
Trade with Earth was bleeding them of water and would eventually lead to the colony's collapse.

They could probably have been self-sufficient if they hadn't been forced to send grain to Earth. But being a bunch of transportees and convicts, they didn't get a say in the matter.

Good luck explaining the finer points of a closed-cycle ecology, economics and politics in a 2-hour movie.

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