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Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« on: January 24, 2013, 01:15:58 am »
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When you buy some beef at the butcher's, you know it comes from cattle that once mooed and chewed.

But imagine if this cut of meat, just perfect for your Sunday dinner, had been made from scratch - without slaughtering any animal.

US start-up Modern Meadow believes it can do just that - by making artificial raw meat using a 3D bioprinter.

Peter Thiel, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent venture capitalists, Paypal co-founder and early Facebook investor, has just backed the company with $350,000 (£218,000).

Set up by father-son team Gabor and Andras Forgacs, the start-up wants to take 3D printing to a whole new level.

For three-dimensional printing, solid objects are made from a digital model. It's also known as additive manufacturing: to make the structure tiny droplets are "printed" - layer by layer - via a carefully controlled inkjet nozzle.
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Re: Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2013, 01:37:47 am »
Replicators, anyone?
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Re: Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2013, 03:05:30 am »
Not really a replicator, as that converts energy into matter using the principles of the conservation of mass and energy. (If the collision of an atom of matter and antimatter obliterates both and releases their full potential of energy, then that amount of energy can be used to create an atom of matter.)

This would have to be refueled by the sum total of the matter that is used to create the bacon. On the positive side, this will surely be significantly more efficient than cattle farming.
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Re: Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2013, 05:25:55 am »
This would be awesome!
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Re: Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2013, 05:26:37 am »
Push button, receive bacon. How could this not work?
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Re: Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2013, 08:57:20 am »
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Push button, receive bacon. How could this not work?

The government would ban it to protect the agriculture industry.
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Re: Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2013, 09:27:51 am »
Well, these are printers we're talking about. You know, those machines that are about as reliable as a really unreliable thing. Just imagine you're waiting for a delicious steak to print, only for the damn thing to jam or just stop due to low ink (or the equivalent thereof). I tell you, it's infuriating enough as is, just imagine how bad it'll be when you need it to eat?
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Re: Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2013, 09:37:17 am »
Quote from: Art Vandelay on January 24, 2013, 09:27:51 am
Well, these are printers we're talking about. You know, those machines that are about as reliable as a really unreliable thing. Just imagine you're waiting for a delicious steak to print, only for the damn thing to jam or just stop due to low ink (or the equivalent thereof). I tell you, it's infuriating enough as is, just imagine how bad it'll be when you need it to eat?

Not to mention that the cartridges will be ridiculously expensive. A $2,500 cartridge prints you 20 pounds of meat. You attempt to print yourself one last chicken cutlet when the "ink" is low, and you end up with a smudgy, discolored and malformed lump of matter.

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Re: Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2013, 10:11:58 am »
Yeah, printers are well-known to be kind of psychotic.
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Re: Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2013, 07:13:15 pm »
Quote from: Art Vandelay on January 24, 2013, 09:27:51 am
Well, these are printers we're talking about. You know, those machines that are about as reliable as a really unreliable thing. Just imagine you're waiting for a delicious steak to print, only for the damn thing to jam or just stop due to low ink (or the equivalent thereof). I tell you, it's infuriating enough as is, just imagine how bad it'll be when you need it to eat?

I know, my printer freaks out when ever I have to print something and it pisses me off, I know that I would be cursing if my food stopped printing when I am hungry and want food.
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Re: Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2013, 09:08:31 pm »
Sounds less like a replicator, and more like a protein resequencer from Enterprise.  However, that is still awesome as hell.
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Re: Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« Reply #11 on: January 25, 2013, 12:48:00 pm »
New Chik Fil A cow advert -

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Re: Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« Reply #12 on: January 25, 2013, 12:51:02 pm »
Quote from: mellenORL on January 25, 2013, 12:48:00 pm
New Chik Fil A cow advert -

Dey dook err derbs!

Modern Meadow Bowl sounds better than Chick-Fil-A Bowl to me!
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Re: Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« Reply #13 on: January 31, 2013, 02:28:56 am »
Man, if this works, it will be awesome. Like anything else, I think I'll wait until they smooth out the bugs first XD.
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Re: Bacon printer, motherf***er!
« Reply #14 on: January 31, 2013, 05:19:57 am »
Quote from: Stormwarden on January 31, 2013, 02:28:56 am
Man, if this works, it will be awesome. Like anything else, I think I'll wait until they smooth out the bugs first XD.

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