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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: i-node who wrote (694108)1/20/2013 3:58:39 PM
From: combjelly1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 1577924
 
In other words, you have nothing.

Ignoring is not attacking. Trying to get people fired because the work they are doing yields result that contradict your politics is. Claiming that entire fields of science are engaging in a massive, decades long conspiracy is.

As far as the materials to create working weapons, they already do. A PLA knife can easily slit your throat. But the idea that reasonable gun control measures cannot be taken because people will soon be printing them out is silly. The existing technology to do something like that requires lasers of more than 200 watts.

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Now there may be a technology developed in the future that uses some other method, but...

Because it is not enough to merely fuse the metal particles. It also needs to be dense, which means fully melting the metal particles. And, because it is fine metal particles we are talking about, it has to be done in an inert atmosphere.

This is not carefully picking the science. It is what is called "knowing what you are talking about".
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