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So, as far as I can tell, most labs and universities are researching graphene as a conductive material for displays and flexible solar cells. That's awesome and all, but initially there was a lot of talk about using it as a building material for aircraft and space craft. Did anything ever some of that? It seems ripe for experimentation, especially since we can now produce graphene at industrial scales (see: http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=15057))

>> No.2439043

>Did anything ever some of that?
W-what?

>> No.2439073
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2439073

>Build a multi-material 3d printer that prints graphene composites.

>Scale printer to the size of a garage, and use the printer as a rapid assembly system.

>Create any near-indestructible device you want, including more industrial printers.

>Save the world.

>> No.2439079

>>2439043

*come

>> No.2439097
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2439097

>>2439073
Hopefully people will easily be able to pirate blueprints. I'm not paying more just because I can theoretically make thousands.

>> No.2439136

>>2439097
Free or cheap blue prints would be a good way to go, honestly. You could follow the App Store model and charge something like 5-15 bucks for a flexible touch screen or flexible solar array to mount on your car or something. It saves the designer/company the cost of manufacturing, since the user supplies the raw materials, so you can charge near negligible prices and still turn a significant profit. I'm already sort of working on that, along with a few other programmers who agree the wikipedia model Thingiverse uses right now is seriously flawed.

>> No.2439171

Graphene sucks for constructing anything, it keeps sliding

>> No.2439323

>>2439171
That's why you use graphene composites for building things instead of pure graphene.

>> No.2439344

>>2439136

My opinion is that it will go the way of software, with engineers getting together in their free time to write free and open-source blueprints for everyone's molecular assemblers.

FUCK YEHA OPEN SOURCE NANOTECH HAHA YOU MAD CENTRALIZED PRIMEVAL GOV'MENT?

>> No.2439538
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2439538

>download your freeware graphene blueprints
>all excited to make your new french press
>It comes out a dildo

yfw

>> No.2439793

>>2439097

>pirate blueprints
>implying we'd have any need for copyright, IP or even currency once we've entirely eliminated our manufacturing scarcity

>> No.2440840

I already printed a dildo. TAKE THAT, SCIENCE.

>> No.2440881

>>2439793
>LOLLIN' at the fact you think the current brass would allow you to interfere with their artificially bloated profits.