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  12. What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

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    I have been waiting for the third book to come out before starting this one (thanks to GRRM :(). I have been salivating in anticipation because TNotW is rumored to be an excellent book. I may relent soon and begin to read it before the third book is released. Kinda depends on the other books in my Fantasy "to be read" pile.

     

    Perhaps it was a little over hyped, but I found the book good but not "that good". I think that I would have been extremely impressed by it if I had stumbled across it, but as it is I heard all these raves about it and then it just didn't _quite_ hit that sweet spot.

  13. I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!)

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    I had a dream that my wife and I bought a house that was built into/on top of an old castle, which in turn had been built on ancient caves and tunnels. Part of the dream was exploring and mapping the castle and tunnels, then we closed a thick door between the house and the castle when it was time for bed so nothing came up out of the tunnels...

  21. More space news!

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    3D printing with (simulated) lunar regolith

     

    Amit Bandyopadhyay and Susmita Bose, using simulated lunar regolith that are analogies to moon rocks, have used 3D printing to create a number of crude objects. The simulated regolith, found on Earth and supplied by NASA, contains silicon, aluminum, calcium, iron and magnesium oxides but behaves like silica when melted by a laser. Once the regolith is melted, a 3D printer creates objects out of it layer by layer.

     

    Using moon rocks shaped by 3D printers as building material or simple spare parts and tools would vastly decrease the expense of building and maintaining a lunar settlement. 3D printing also has considerable promise for Earth bound construction.

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