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Idea: a machine that eats dirt and prints roads
- jsmcgd 18y agoI think I've seen this in Thunderbirds. Thought it was good then. Still do!
- ph0rque 18y agoCan you post a link?
- jsmcgd 18y agoI can't sorry. Maybe someone else remembers the episode?
- jsmcgd 18y agoAh ha! Unfortunately there is no picture but there is a description of it on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_2#Roadlayer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_2#Roadlayer
- ph0rque 18y agoHadley posted a youtube video in the comments of the blog post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f28_zrU0X4A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f28_zrU0X4A
- jsmcgd 18y agoThanks. That's fantastic! (The road layer debuts at 5:02). I'm not sure if it's using the plasma process but it must be doing something similar because a large chunk of the mass of the vehicle is empty hanger space. So the materials to make the road must be coming from the ground itself. Either that or the 'road' is just a layer of black paint. I choose to give Gerry Anderson benefit of the doubt however. At university my mate had to design a road maintenance vehicle that allowed traffic to drive over whilst in use, a kind of rolling mobile bridge. I was very jealous. My CS degree assignments never approached anything like designing real thunderbirds.
- petercooper 18y agoI'd buy one.
- vaksel 18y agoexcept our roads aren't made of dirt.
- ph0rque 18y agoThey were at some point, and are in a lot of developing countries.
- shadytrees 18y agoMachine, equipped with AI, goes on to learn how to eat children and other small mammals and print roads