Hi Folks. Had a visitor to look at my car the other day who was a
retired civilian Army aviation logistics specialist. Told me something
I was curious about. He said there exist today in industry cad-cam
devices even incorporating x-rays that could focus on an object like an
Ardun head, completely analyze it in three dimensions inside and out,
computer model it, arrange for all necessary pattern and mold making,
instruct the foundry to make it, heat treat it, machine it, and roll out
the finished product as an exact duplicate of your original. All this
without human hands having touched it. And since this is all automatic,
without paying hourly personnel, the cost would be very low.
I was impressed. Anybody out there know if these wonders are true?
Getting pretty close to the computer that creates food on command out of
nothing on the Star Trek shows.
ArdunBill in the Great Dismal Swamp, Chesapeake, VA
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