Le 2013-12-02 20:08, Patrick Elliott a écrit :
> On 12/2/2013 5:58 PM, James Holsenback wrote:
>> On 12/02/2013 03:09 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:11:10 -0500, James Holsenback wrote:
>>>
>>>> hey if bezos /really/ is the visionary everyone says he is ... he'd be
>>>> looking into replicators (ala star trek) NOT drones
>>>
>>> Either that or transporters.  There's not a lot of money to be made in
>>> fabrication-on-demand technology like replicators, but transporters -
>>> well, that's just another delivery mechanism. :)
>>
>> too bad we have to wait for some egghead to figure out how to convert
>> matter to energy then back ... hey 10/15 years ago the idea of a 3d
>> printer would have been considered a pipe dream, so I don't think the
>> eventual reality is /too/ far fetched.
>>
> Except.. Unless you know how to make "Heisenberg Compensators", you are
> out of luck. lol The problem isn't just getting all the matter turned to
> energy, without like.. turning it into a nuke, or getting a mess of a
> specific kind of energy to rearrange itself into all the different stuff
> making up atoms, which is a big enough problem, but then you have the
> sort of.. problematic issue of getting all the resulting subatomic
> particles to go, and stay, where you want them, long enough to form the
> right sort of atoms, instead of... what ever the hell they feel like,
> and where ever they want to be, instead.
>
> This is.... a rather non-trivial issue, compared to figuring out how to
> melt a relatively stable material, keep it warm enough for all the bits
> to stick together right (if using the home-grown kind, as apposed to the
> resin versions, which use lasers to "fix" the layers in place), in a
> manner that is little more than a computer controlled version of cake
> decorating. :p

Oh, and don't forget that pesky third law of thermodynamics.


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