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posted by on Monday April 24 2017, @05:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-by-the-hairs-on-my-3D-printed-chin dept.

A company called Apis Cor has 3D printed a (tiny) house in 24 hours for $10,000, which comes out to about $275/m2.

Reconstructing Buckingham Palace at 77,000 m2 this way would cost only about $21 million. According to a 2010 estimate in The Guardian: "you could build a new energy-efficient replica of the palace for a knock-down £320m", which translates to $552 million.

So: 3D printing the palace would save over a HALF BILLION DOLLARS! Muahahaha (pinkies up!).

Video of the building process.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DECbot on Monday April 24 2017, @08:08PM (1 child)

    by DECbot (832) on Monday April 24 2017, @08:08PM (#499029) Journal

    When $kids >= 2, you'll start looking for houses over 2000 ft² (185 m²). Each kid needs about 250 ft² that is non-overlapping with the other kids' territories to keep the screaming to a minimum. And you need the additional 1500 ft² for the feeding facilities, hygiene enforcement rooms, exercise room with audio-visual stimulus box (preferably you'll have two of these rooms to avoid arguments of what is playing on said stimulus box), and housing for the onsite parental units. The alternative is typically high-density child housing paired with free-range child rearing. Yet, in today's atmosphere of nosy helicopter parent neighbors, that will likely result in interference from the local federal enforcement agency.

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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday April 24 2017, @09:06PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday April 24 2017, @09:06PM (#499048)

    These alternatives are too unattainable or undesirable for much of the population now.

    "Child-free" rearing, as you say, will likely get you in trouble with CPS if not actual jail time like the guy in LA recently who was convicted of child endangerment and imprisoned for making his kid walk 1 mile home as a punishment.

    Having a proper amount of space inside to avoid the legal problems will cost at least $1M in a desirable area (one where you can get a job).

    The answer is simple: don't have kids. Our society actively punishes you for having kids, so the simple solution is to just not have any. Eventually, this problem will correct itself.