Re: [rp-ml] RepRap

Don't feel bad

My wife is a Biologist/Geneticist and still thinks that Chemistry and
Physics (Particularly Physics..... ) is the sperm of the Devil.

I guess maybe, its an intra Discipline thing.......

aka47

"Bo Atkinson" <boa1@pivot.net> wrote:
> Glad to see your work! I flunked an advanced biology course in 1965,
> largely because i challenged the academic "definition of life". That
> definition was heavily based on self replication, at that time and my
> school thought robotics was fantasy, apparently. I said if a factory
> produced self replicating factories, wouldn't that fit the then
> "current definition" of life. The teacher thought it extremely rude
> and immature to think of that. Oh well, such is life. ;-)
>
>
> On Jun 4, 2008, at 6:55 PM, Adrian Bowyer wrote:
>
>> I hope that the list will forgive a little self-publicity.
>>
>> The RepRap machine has just achieved self-replication - details on
>> the website at
>>
>> http://reprap.org,
>>
>> and on the blog at
>>
>> http://blog.reprap.org/2008/06/reprap-achieves-replication.html
>>
>> I now expect all those who said here when we started that it
>> couldn't be done to start eating hats or whatever other self-
>> abasement they then rashly promised :-)
>>
>> Also, reprapper nophead is working on part quality*. The list may
>> care to
>> look at what he's doing at
>>
>> http://blog.reprap.org/2008/05/abs-door-handle.html
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Which, interestingly, we have discovered we don't much need for
>> replication, though it's obviously desirable for other engineering
>> and aesthetic reasons. We need neither precision, nor
>> repeatability, nor even much reliability for successful
>> replication. We just need geometric complexity. I suspect that
>> this will surprise engineers, but not biologists.
>>
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Adrian
>>
>> Dr Adrian Bowyer
>> http://staff.bath.ac.uk/ensab
>> http://reprap.org
>>
>>
>>
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Received on Wed Jun 11 23:04:28 2008