The consortium tested the practicalities of using a printer on the Moon by setting up a D-shape 3D printer, which are used to print very large house-sized structures, in a vacuum chamber with simulated lunar material.
"If you allowed automakers to make what they're good at they'd be in much better shape, " Johnson says.
If a B737-800 was morphed into the shape of one of the D-series of aircraft on which Mark Drela is experimenting in MIT's wind tunnel, then it would be about the same size, could fly the same routes and would carry a similar number of passengers.
"This was an area we knew we couldn't veer in any way shape or form, and we'd be crazy to, " Feldman said.
When D'Angelo was 17, he decided to get in shape.
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With conventional 3-D graphics, the computer generates and stores data rendering the depth, shape, color, and texture of the entire house -- including walls, windows and doors that are out of sight.
And if I'm in shape to do it and if my health permits, then I'd be perfectly happy to serve, but he'll have to make that call and it's a decision that's several years away.
The Lib Dem leader's message was that if they'd stuck to their own successes, they might have come out of coalition in better shape.
He's been struggling with injury this winter and I know he's not as fit as he'd like to be, but he's worked hard on getting himself back into shape.
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The fourth "d" here is time, referring to an object that, once printed, is capable of changing shape (over time, naturally).
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We've all known that iPad prototypes of every shape and size reside inside Apple's design lab, but few of us believed we'd ever see one on store shelves.
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Our dithering aside, it's time to turn the question over to our faithful Engadgeteers with this chance to shape the future of the high-end audio business for the better... we'd better not disappoint the man!
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The Washington Post finds no truth to the allegations, led by Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.), that Pentagon leaders set up their own unauthorized bureaucracy to collect their own intelligence and shape the rationale for the war effort.
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