Author Topic: Where can i buy a crash test dummy  (Read 1730 times)

« Last Edit: May 11, 2014, 02:08:14 PM by TheBlueHobo »

Once 3D printers are able to cheaply print in a large size, you're able to make your own dummy parts and put them together to make a test dummy.
Sorry but what's the point of saying this?

"Hey guys what's the easiest way to get from the United States to Venezuela?"
"Once mainstream teleporters exist for the mass market it will be really easy to travel instantly to Venezuela!"

Sorry but what's the point of saying this?

"Hey guys what's the easiest way to get from the United States to Venezuela?"
"Once mainstream teleporters exist for the mass market it will be really easy to travel instantly to Venezuela!"
except 3d printers actually exist?

Sorry but what's the point of saying this?

"Hey guys what's the easiest way to get from the United States to Venezuela?"
"Once mainstream teleporters exist for the mass market it will be really easy to travel instantly to Venezuela!"
???????????????

Sorry but what's the point of saying this?

"Hey guys what's the easiest way to get from the United States to Venezuela?"
"Once mainstream teleporters exist for the mass market it will be really easy to travel instantly to Venezuela!"
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Teleporters confirmed that they exist, but they just aren't cheap. Call the news.

Sorry but what's the point of saying this?

"Hey guys what's the easiest way to get from the United States to Venezuela?"
"Once mainstream teleporters exist for the mass market it will be really easy to travel instantly to Venezuela!"
"hey guise lets dpend on other peeple rathr than creatin our own stuff"no, just no

"If you can't find it, then do it yourself"
« Last Edit: May 11, 2014, 03:10:38 PM by Axo-Tak »

"Hey guys what's the easiest way to get from the United States to Venezuela?"
"Once mainstream teleporters exist for the mass market it will be really easy to travel instantly to Venezuela!"
"Hay guis wat's da festest wai to travle dwon teh strett?"
"onc teh wheel is ivneted, we cna go rly fsat dwon teh strett!!!"

i wouldn't think falling off a porch would do much to a crash test dummy

unless you live on the tenth floor of a building or something
it wouldn't really be a porch then
it'd be a balcony, in which case it would be better to say "i want to see what happens when i push a person off a building." at this point there's no sense really testing it because we're pretty sure that a person would die if they fell ten stories.

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he's pointing out that what he said was completely useless to OP's current request

i wouldn't think falling off a porch would do much to a crash test dummy

unless you live on the tenth floor of a building or something
or if im throwing him on the top of a car

it wouldn't really be a porch then
it'd be a balcony, in which case it would be better to say "i want to see what happens when i push a person off a building." at this point there's no sense really testing it because we're pretty sure that a person would die if they fell ten stories.
my dad read an article where people who fall off bridges actually die pretty horribly

their ribs get crushed while they're alive and puncture their lungs & heart and that's how they finally die

Obviously I made an extreme exaggeration of what he's saying, but 3D printers suitable for building man-sized things will not be available to consumers for a while, not to mention the amount of material it would cost to make out of ABS or something even more expensive. It's not like I don't know what I'm talking about either, I actually just went to a 3D printing symposium last week, got a chance to meet Avi Reichental, the CEO of 3D Systems and listen to his talk on the subject.

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Teleporters confirmed that they exist, but they just aren't cheap. Call the news.
Teleportation on a rudimentary atom to atom basis has been accomplished before, it's nothing new. Personally, I don't think feasable teleportation will be even close to accomplished in my lifetime but hey, it might. I definitely think that people being able to print their own crash dummies in their personal 3D printers will happen, though.

My point still stands. Telling someone how stuff might go down in the future is not useful when they're clearly asking for how to do something now. The OP wanted to know how to get a crash test dummy. If the OP had thousands of dollars to throw at printing and a printer large enough to do what was suggested, he would probably already be able to buy a crash dummy. The point of using an extreme exaggeration to point out the flaws in what someone said is just that: an extreme exaggeration

Wasn't the "teleporter" they invented creating instead of moving atoms?

If Strong AI holds true, then the best way to teleport someone is to recreate them on the other end from raw parts, then mulch up the old one on the other side for use as raw parts.

Sure, it would be excruciatingly painful, but only for the one who ends up dead and can never tell you how painful it was.

Wasn't the "teleporter" they invented creating instead of moving atoms?
you can't create atoms, iirc
matter can neither be created nor destroyed