Future Engineers...

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Topics: 3D Printing, Humor, NASA, Science Fiction, Space Exploration, Star Trek, STEM

I kind of tackled this in the posts Tea, Earl Grey and Kardashev Scales, essentially we're likely not to achieve the clearly miracle technologies that would violate the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (I'm pretty certain about that!).

However, the closest approximation to replicators are the 3D printing systems that are becoming almost routine; some mentioned even in the same breath as the 2nd Amendment strangely enough.

It is good, with Star Trek due in 2017 to start now to engage the young in STEM activities that will lead ultimately to the next generation of scientists and engineers that will get us to Mars and beyond.

And, for that consequential and monumentally long journey (barring we survive our own hubris to make the actual trek): we shall have to EAT.

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