• Annoyed_🦀 🏅@monyet.cc
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    6 maanden geleden

    I mean i can make a plastic bridge too, doesn’t mean it will last.

    You can’t just “print” a steel bridge and expect it to not snap the second day it open to public, it ain’t sci-fi.

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 maanden geleden

      You probably could make a 3rd printer capable of printing the steel components for a bridge. If you pour enough money and time down the drain, there’s no reason why you couldn’t have some robots handling the scaffolding and “3D printing” the concrete too. It would be several¹ orders of magnitude slower and more expensive than using the normal processes, but hey why build 10000 bridges when you can build just one that tech bros can masturbate to.

      ¹ this “several” is breaking the world record of heavy lifting

    • abbadon420@lemm.ee
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      6 maanden geleden

      Taxes are not american. Fundraisers are. Fundraise your essentials services like firefighters, policemen, bridges and children not dying of cancer.

      • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
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        6 maanden geleden

        Don’t forget politicians. Millionaires or Billionaires asking for money from the general population to fund the campaign so they can get the job.

    • Zacryon@feddit.de
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      6 maanden geleden

      To be fair, you don’t need a very huge 3D printer for that, if you divide it into a lot of smaller parts which can be assembled later.

      Idk, if we can already print steel though and whether we can make it structually sufficiently stable.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        6 maanden geleden

        So our proposal is we prefab a bunch of metal pieces and assemble them on-site?

        As opposed to our current method where we carve bridges out of a big block of metal?

        • Zacryon@feddit.de
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          6 maanden geleden

          Hahahaha absolutely. :D The difference is, that they come from a 3D printer and that’s cool.