[TML] 3D Tissue Printer

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 1/27/08 2:24 AM, "Michael Jenkins" <darvedd at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>> 
>>> 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!     :)

Oh, I remember that scene.  I just never thought of it as a 3D printer.
They pretty much hand-waved it.

>> 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.

True, but if you don't send a specific person, you'll have to have machines
raise the infant (maybe adult body, but brains start blank!), and teach it
what you sent it there for.  And hope it wants to do it!  :)