XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics, sci.electronics.design   
      
   In sci.physics Robert Clark  wrote:   
      
      
      
   > From the way I interpret what Ehteshami is saying, it mirrors something I've   
   > been thinking. You can imagine not just cars being fully 3D-printed, but   
   > entire airplanes, tractors, construction vehicles, refrigerators, air   
   > conditioners, and everything else called "durable goods". But this would   
   > mean nearly all manufacturing jobs would be replaced by 3D-printing   
   > machines. That is a major economic disruption.   
      
   Puerile nonsense.   
      
   3D printers make parts which need to be assembled into a finished item.   
      
   The list of materials that can not and can never be printed is huge.   
      
   How do you print a spring inside of something and under compression?   
      
   > Not only that, but all these would become much cheaper. Would the companies   
   > that produce them even be billion dollar companies anymore?   
      
   Someone is watch too much scifi.   
      
      
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