The problem with this idea, is that it would make a great food source to the much faster replicating, and therefor evolving traditional life forms.

If the news you get makes you stupid... it is because you are stupid.

bio-fouling happens on moving surfaces as well. It will be expensive keeping them clean.

And now you have some of the most expensive electricity ever.

You would be surprised how much can't be 3d printed. For example even if you can print aluminum, you couldn't print the outside edge of a iPhone. It is forged to get the right set of crystal structure and work hardening to give it the properties it needs.

And then there are electronics and all the different materials you would need. It won't be quite the revolution you think it will be. It is not like they are new or anything.

We do need a good open source cad program. While not cad both these projects (Art of Illusion and Blender) are fairly good. Blender is getting so much work put into over the last few years, and is getting pretty impressive. If they decided to add a "CAD" mode. It would be implemented fairly fast.

Of course even really good free/cheap CAD does not make everyone a CAD designer or whatever. 3D printers at home will do what most printers do at home. Print clip art (other peoples models) or photos (3d scan).

using just a camera you can 3d scan things.

So your measuring your reproductive potential with how much money you have? Well i guess you can afford a lot of blue pills, but last I heard hookers tend to want you to use protection or are on the pill.

It is far better to be happy than wealthy.

I think you should. They are not as advertised.

High pulp does. I love high pulp... Basically just blend that fruit... mmmmmmmmmmm

The whole point of a drinking game, is for it to "go to shit" or at least some shit to go down when someone, or a few people get really tanked. Life is too short, even with moderate drinking, not to have fun every step of the way.

Bullshit. Plenty of fields require much more confidence. 1 in 20 is something that happens lots. Its like rolling a 1 on a 20 sided die. Many fields use the so called 4 to 6 nines (99.99 to 99.9999) and other use 4 to 6 sigma....

Don't be so hard on the US. They really do provide a lot of funding compared to many countries. Sure it is distributed in perhaps not the best way (few very large grants), but its pretty substantial. For example my PhD was 100% funded under a NSF grant despite the fact that i was not in the US. We also had the requirement that we had to make all findings and contributions reasonable public.

I can't quite see how non profit driven medical research would need patents?

Hilarious. Was still hoping for some sort of vote of no confidence in the last election. These 2 party system are balls. Yea i know its a MMP thing. But in practice its still a 2 party system.

These development costs are massively overstated. Sure they are high. But not anything like high enough to justify the costs of some treatments in the US.

We already do a lot of computer simulations for this sort of thing. Paid for by public funding of course. So that the corporations can get their drug patented.