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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)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"...and filament. Lots of filament."

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (9 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

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