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"Give me a 3d printer and a place to plug it in and I will create the world." - Archimedes (lemmy.world)
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"...and filament. Lots of filament."

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The volume of Planet Earth is 108.321x10^10 km3.. Converted to std meters, that is 1.08321x10^21 m3.

A typical high flow 3d printer hotend (without getting insane) can hit around 25mm3/sec volumetric flow assuming no nozzle or acceleration restrictions. Converted to std meters, that is 2.5x10^-8 m3/sec.

If you ran that hotend continuously with no breaks, it would only take about 4.332x10^28 seconds to print the planet Earth... or 1.374x10^21 (1.4 sextillion!) years!

Gentlemen. We're going to need a bigger printer.

[–] falk1856@midwest.social 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just set it to 5% infill in fast spaghetti mode and we can crank that baby out before the sun goes dark.

[–] WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I mean if you only print the side that is exposed to sun. Keep rotating that baby.

[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

That's why you start by printing more printers.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

A lot of us here aren't actually mortal so that's not a big deal

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah but it's a little hard to power your printer past the heat death of the universe

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

Every fucking century you just haaave to bring that up, don't you.

[–] algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Might need to bump up to 0.8mm

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 8 points 3 weeks ago

Or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof:-)

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 8 points 3 weeks ago

Archimedes was better known for bath thoughts.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Lol imagine thinking you would print anything without youtube!

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well unless you like miniatures in which case you're going to need resin

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Actually I printed a few decent ones with my Ender 3. A couple tests on my new A1 came out really nice.