[TML] 3D Tissue Printer

[Michael Jenkins]

On 27/01/2008, Jerry W Barrington <jursamaj at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 1/26/08 2:12 PM, "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 26, 2008 1:37 PM, Andy Slack <sablemage at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >> Cooooooooool.
> >>
> >> I'm surprised the cells are viable. If they are, I suppose theoretically a
> >> big enough printer could print a whole viable animal, or person. That could
> >> be a different approach to sublight colony ships - never mind the frozen ova
> >> and sperm approach, just send some inkjets with funky ink cartridges and a
> >> big database.
> >>
> > The 5th Element.
>
> I don't recall anything quite like that in the movie...

Dude! You don't remember them building the hot chick (Leeloo) from the
DNA fragment recovered from the Mondoshawan spaceship?

Better get that checked!     :)

> And the hard part is getting the mind into the new body!

It's all in building the brain right. Particularly not a problem if
you're not trying to recreate an existing or previously existing
individual.

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Michael Jenkins
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