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One of the 3D metal printing companies made a titanium version of this chair and had it out at Westec or one of the tradeshows. It gave me really mixed emotions
by ChuckMcM 7y ago
One of the 3D metal printing companies made a titanium version of this chair and had it out at Westec or one of the tradeshows. It gave me really mixed emotions, do I want it because its frickin' titanium or am I just impressed you can print something like that? I expect that chair to outlive the company and possibly humans on the planet :-)
- thewarpaint 7y ago"I expect that chair to outlive the company and possibly humans on the planet" is a sentence that I would react to with the opposite emotion :-(
- ChuckMcM 7y agoWhen future cockroach geologists look upon this artifact they might speculate it was a throne for the giant creatures that used to rule the planet :-)
- ljm 7y agoYou assume they might know or appreciate chairs and thrones. More likely they see it as an ancient monolith.
- hdjejdjd 7y agoYeah your opinion about future cockroach geologists studying ancient human civilization is more scientifically valid than the other person's.
- DeedsMoraine 7y agoWell, they may recognize the shape of the chair as being similar to the stations at the end of the ancient transport system the precursors created. But since that system of tubes was too small for humans to travel through, it must have been something from an even older culture that humans co-opted and used in their ritualistic worship of the rectangle deity.
- airstrike 7y agoReminded me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653567
- countername 7y agoWhy? It's durable you can clean the chair and reuse it without throwing it away and creating a new chair.
- MereInterest 7y agoBecause it implies an end to humanity on this planet that does not also incorporate an end to that titanium chair. That any physical object could outlive humanity means that humanity will end far before it should.
- victorbojica 7y agoDo you have a link for that? For some reason, this made me really curious.
- ChuckMcM 7y agoIt wasn't a link, it was a prop at a trade show to get you to talk to the folks about their 3D printer that could print metal, that said I would have expected them to create some sort of version of it that was accessible to the web. I've sent off an question to my machinist buddy who was there as well to see if he remembers which company did it.
- jeen02 7y agowe just want the link
- spurdoman77 7y agoGive us the link dammit
- dang 7y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? I'm afraid you've been doing it a lot, and we ban accounts that post that way. We're trying, if possible, for something a bit better than internet median here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- andai 7y agoGoogle just brings me back to your comment :)
- marmshallow 7y agoMaybe like this one? https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/12/412300/6034129/stackedchairs_600.gif https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/12/412300/6034129/stac...
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- cool-RR 7y agoIs it cool? Yes. Will it get scorching hot when left in the sunlight? Absolutely ;)
- legulere 7y agoTitanium has a relatively low thermal conductivity for a metal.
- jacobush 7y agoWhich should make it hotter, right?
- mfgs 7y agoBut a lower thermal conductivity will make it feel less hot when you sit on it.
- marcosdumay 7y agoThe actual temperature only depends on the surface color. The perceived temperature is that less conductive objects are less hot/cool than more conductive ones.