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To: MHGinTN; RightWhale
"... isn't there a 3D fabricator copier now, and could the matrices be stratified to lay down varying lines of cells in layer upon layer as the 3D construct occurs?"

The current technology for three-D reproduction is a tank of light-activated plastic. You expose the surface of the liquid to ultraviolet light which hardens the liquid, then you lower the surface, allowing more liquid to cover the freshly hardened suface, and expose that to a fresh layer of ultraviloet light patterning.

Over time, you have produced a three-dimensional reproduction of whatever was in the computer's memory.

The next step to take is to be able to print the colonizing cells into a nourishing three-dimensional structure, complete with its own blood flow and skeletal integrity.

Who wants to be first to have a head transplant?

(Just kidding -- the above would not allow for reproducing the structure of memory and interneural connections. It might suffice for some cruder substructures, however.)

11 posted on 03/04/2007 11:11:25 AM PST by NicknamedBob (I know where I have gone wrong, and I can cite it, chapter and verse.)
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To: NicknamedBob

We need to sit down for a series of lunches and chew over a few futurist notions!


12 posted on 03/04/2007 11:14:59 AM PST by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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