Today, I ran across two different news stories that just made me smile. I love natural parks. Waterfalls and quiet natural places are some of my biggest loves. So it was really neat to hear that in my home state they discovered a large previously "lost" waterfall, and a new cavern system.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0815_050815_waterfall.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060926-cave-california.html
That's just really nice.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0815_050815_waterfall.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060926-cave-california.html
That's just really nice.
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- 17 Oct 2011, 19:18Clever! ^_^
- 7 Oct 2011, 08:38Was each link made from two pieces, or was there fill material inside that you removed? I'm having trouble seeing how to print these in a makerbot-compatible way (though I could just be overlooking…
- 5 Oct 2011, 22:40Nah. It'd just take a dissolvable support material and higher resolution. There are commercial 3d printers out there that can print ball bearing assemblies in one pass, fully assembled.
- 5 Oct 2011, 18:46Nice! ^_^ I was going to be flabbergasted if you were actually able to print it as a unit, but I guess that would take antigravity.
- 5 Oct 2011, 18:19I printed each piece individually and assembled them after some cleanup. I did print four segments at a time, though, unattached, in a 2x2 grid.
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Kind of wondering why they didn't check Google Maps' satellite photos for the falls given the map location before hiking out there, though.
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I really ought to subscribe to National Geographic again sometime; my original, long-time subscription was a continuing gift from my grandfather, a geologist of repute.