Printed Wine?

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Ian Fitzsimmons

Ian Fitzsimmons
A sci-fi twist on wine in a box. Ventner has written about printing dna as a means to replicate cells locally, but the idea of printing out a glass of Cros Parantoux for an evening's tipple would, I can't help but feel, drain the experience of romance.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Printed Wine?A sci-fi twist on wine in a box. Ventner has written about printing dna as a means to replicate cells locally, but the idea of printing out a glass of Cros Parantoux for an evening's tipple would, I can't help but feel, drain the experience of romance.
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The star trek replicator machine even sooner than we thought. It will change the meaning of wine speaking of a place.
 
3-D printing is indeed a fascinating technology, but wholly inapt for the duplication of wine (good thing, too, else we'd have aspiring Rudys in every college dorm). What 3-D printing gives you is a high degree of spatial control in manufacturing. With the proper choice of materials , you probably could print a pizza or enchiladas. For a homogeneous mixture like wine, though, the magic is in the trace ingredients, all of which the printer would have to include. Far more scary to me is a Clark Smirh type analyzing a '78 Cros Parantoux and devising a formula by which it can be replicated.

Mark Lipton
 
I'm having a little trouble wrapping my head around this 3D printer revolution considering they still haven't managed to build a 2D printer that doesn't break down every other print job.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
The star trek replicator machine even sooner than we thought. It will change the meaning of wine speaking of a place.
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My first thought as well. But Piccard always found the replicated wine inferior to the real wine he drank on earth.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
The star trek replicator machine even sooner than we thought. It will change the meaning of wine speaking of a place.
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My first thought as well. But Piccard always found the replicated wine inferior to the real wine he drank on earth.
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All I ever remember him drinking was "Tea, Earl Grey, hot." It's lucky he didn't give all his orders like that or no one would have known what to make of them: "nine, factor, warp, now."

Still it did turn out in one episode, his brother owned a vineyard in France so I might have missed the episode where he commented on wine--as opposed to Klingon blood wine or whatever.
 
originally posted by MLipton:
3-D printing is indeed a fascinating technology, but wholly inapt for the duplication of wine (good thing, too, else we'd have aspiring Rudys in every college dorm). What 3-D printing gives you is a high degree of spatial control in manufacturing. With the proper choice of materials , you probably could print a pizza or enchiladas. For a homogeneous mixture like wine, though, the magic is in the trace ingredients, all of which the printer would have to include. Far more scary to me is a Clark Smirh type analyzing a '78 Cros Parantoux and devising a formula by which it can be replicated.

Mark Lipton
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You, Mark, are just a big old wet blanket.
 
Pretty sure he asked for '61 Lafite once and found it lacking. Kane will know for sure. But had he drunk an authentic '61 Lafite it would have been several centuries old at the time. Unless 2561 is also a good vintage. Or maybe Q brought one back for him through a wormhole or something. Again, Kane will be able to clear all this up.
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:

You, Mark, are just a big old wet blanket.
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Sorry, Ian. Sleep deprivation has obviously messed with my sense of humor this morning.

Mark Lipton (yawn)
 
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