XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics, sci.electronics.design   
   From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   krw@notreal.com wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 09 Jul 2017 21:55:19 -0600, Greg Goss  wrote:   
   >   
   >>krw@notreal.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>Composites are widely used all over the place.  Many of them the Chimp   
   >>>>probably thinks of as 'traditional materials'.  Both concrete and   
   >>>>mortar are composite materials and we've been using that stuff since   
   >>>>the Romans.  Composites of various types are used all over the place,   
   >>>>from piping to appliances to aircraft to construction materials.   
   >>>   
   >>>Oh, good grief.  I suppose you're going to tell me that a concrete   
   >>>pump is a 3-D printer, too.   
   >>   
   >>Hook it to the right controller and it is.  I saw a youtube of someone   
   >>printing a kid's playcastle using a concrete pump device of some kind.   
   >>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5Elbvvr1M   
   >   
   >Don't be an idiot.  The thread is clearly about modern marvels, like   
   >carbon fiber, not concrete.  Geez, people turn intentionally stupid   
   >when they run out of ideas (like leftists).   
   >   
      
   The word being used is 'composites'.  Unlike you, I don't try to read   
   peoples' minds to discover that they don't really mean 'composites' at   
   all.  I take them at their word and assume that if they mean 'carbon   
   fiber' they will say that rather than 'composites'.   
      
      
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