Art/Science/Cool Tech

Bathsheba.com has mathematics and science-based art--gorgeous stuff. The sculptures are printed!.

To start building a model from my 3D file, the design is built up, one layer at a time, from stainless steel powder held in place by a laser-activated binder. You can see the layering on the finished pieces; each layer is .004" to .007" thick.

Here are the folks who make the system for printing in steel powder, then putting the result in a molten bronze bath to make the result more solid. Unfortunately, I can't find a price, but I gather it's in the range of a high-end home business.

While I'm not exactly in the market myself, I'm intrigued by the way technology has been making it more possible for people to have their own businesses, including bookkeeping software, ebay, embrodery machines, and now this.

Art/Science/Cool Tech

Bathsheba.com has mathematics and science-based art--gorgeous stuff. The sculptures are printed!.

To start building a model from my 3D file, the design is built up, one layer at a time, from stainless steel powder held in place by a laser-activated binder. You can see the layering on the finished pieces; each layer is .004" to .007" thick.

Here are the folks who make the system for printing in steel powder, then putting the result in a molten bronze bath to make the result more solid. Unfortunately, I can't find a price, but I gather it's in the range of a high-end home business.

While I'm not exactly in the market myself, I'm intrigued by the way technology has been making it more possible for people to have their own businesses, including bookkeeping software, ebay, embrodery machines, and now this.

Portable Survivalism

I'm gonna answer those comments to my previous bit about Liberalism and Despair as soon as I figure out what I want to say, but meanwhile....

Afaik, the usual notion of survivalism is to find somewhere remote and hide out. I'm not sure that's the best bet, especially when you can't hide your infrared trace unless you're living in a cave.

So how about a nice modern approach? Acquire skills and contacts which mean you've got a chance of a welcome in several civilized countries.

Portable Survivalism

I'm gonna answer those comments to my previous bit about Liberalism and Despair as soon as I figure out what I want to say, but meanwhile....

Afaik, the usual notion of survivalism is to find somewhere remote and hide out. I'm not sure that's the best bet, especially when you can't hide your infrared trace unless you're living in a cave.

So how about a nice modern approach? Acquire skills and contacts which mean you've got a chance of a welcome in several civilized countries.

Why I don't think Bush had advance knowledge of 9/11

If he'd known, wouldn't he have had some plans to use immediately instead of just finishing reading a children's story? I suppose he might have known, but freaked when it turned out to be real, but that doesn't seem as likely as that he just didn't know.

Of course, this doesn't leave out the possibility that other people in his administration did know.

Why I don't think Bush had advance knowledge of 9/11

If he'd known, wouldn't he have had some plans to use immediately instead of just finishing reading a children's story? I suppose he might have known, but freaked when it turned out to be real, but that doesn't seem as likely as that he just didn't know.

Of course, this doesn't leave out the possibility that other people in his administration did know.