Google – AFP, 9 November 2013
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File
picture shows visitors looking at a 3D printer during "Inside 3D
Printing"
conference and exhibition in New York, April 22, 2013 (AFP/File,
Emmanuel Dunand)
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Los Angeles
— A Californian engineering company says it has produced the first metal gun
made on a 3D printer, releasing a video showing the firearm scoring repeated
bullseyes in successful tests.
But Solid
Concepts, which describes itself as a world leader of 3D printing services,
said making the classic 1911 shotgun did not come cheap, requiring a lot more
than a souped-up desktop printer.
"It
functions beautifully," it said of the gun, in a blog accompanying the
video clips. "Our resident gun expert has fired 50 successful rounds and
hit a few bull's eyes at over 30 yards (meters).
The gun
comprises more than 30 3D-printed components, including stainless steel and
other metal parts.
"The
whole concept of using a laser sintering process to 3D print a metal gun
revolves around proving the reliability, accuracy and usability of 3D metal
printing," said Solid Concepts' vice president Kent Firestone.
"We're
working to change people's perspective," he added from the company's base
in Valencia, 30 miles (48 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles.
The 3D
printer they use does not come cheap.
"This
isn't about desktop printers... the industrial printer we used costs more than
my college tuition -- and I went to a private university," said Firestone.
"And
the engineers who run our machines are top of the line; they are experts who
know what they're doing and understand 3D printing better than anyone in this
business."
The use of
3D printing technology to manufacture weapons is not new. But making them out
of metal is.
Earlier
this year computer files allowing someone to make a single-shot Liberator gun
were downloaded more than 100,000 times from Defense Distributed, an
open-source website dedicated to 3D printable gun components.
The State
Department, which oversees US weapons exports, ordered the blueprints to be
taken off the Internet in May -- but by that point, users had already reposted
them widely on various file-sharing sites.
But Solid
Concepts said its system is legal, claiming that they are the only 3D printing
service provider with a Federal Firearms License.
"Now,
if a qualifying customer needs a unique gun part in five days, we can
deliver," the company said.
"We
have the right materials, and the right engineers who know how to best program
and maintain these machines, to make 3D printing accurate, powerful and here to
stay."
"So," you might say, "when will we be ready for it?" I think you already know the answer, don't you? At the time when Human consciousness reaches a point where that which is most important is unification and not separation, it will happen. A point where conquering and power are not desirable ideas or assets. A point where humanity will measure the strength of its population by how healthy they are and not by economic growth. A point where coming together with your neighbor is the main objective to social consciousness, and not conquering them or eliminating them. That's coming, dear ones. It's a ways away, but it's coming. Look around the planet at the moment. The old energy leaders are obvious, are they not? It's like they are relics in a world of thinking that is passing them by. ….”
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There was a point in time when humanity almost stumbled, by the way. You were having a hard time with electricity. So a man came along who was way ahead of his time and was available and his name was Nikola Tesla. He gave you a principle that today you call alternating current. Dear ones, I challenge you to understand this principle. Most of you can't, because it is not in 3D. The attributes are still considered "genius-level thinking" to this day. The whole idea of the kind of electricity you use today comes from this man's quantum mind.
That was all he was allowed to do. Tesla himself was a kind of time capsule, delivered at the right time. He had more, but alternating current was all that was allowed to be given to the planet at that time. Oh, he tried to give you more. He knew there were other things, but nothing was able to be developed. If I told you what else he had discovered, you might not be aware of it at all, since it was never allowed to get out of the box. Earth was not ready for it.
Tesla discovered massless objects. He could alter the mass of atomic structure using designer magnetics, but he never could control it. He had objects fly off his workbench and hit the ceiling, but he couldn't duplicate or control it. It just wasn't time yet. Do you know what else he was known for? It was seemingly the failure of the transmission of electricity. However, he didn't fail at all.
There are pictures of his tower, but every time a Human Being sees a tower, there is a biased assumption that something is going to be broadcast through the air. But in the case of Tesla, he had figured out how to broadcast electricity through the ground. You need towers for that because they have to pick up the magnetics within the ground in a certain way to broadcast them and then collect them again from the nodes of the planet's magnetic grid system. We talked about this before. He was utilizing the grid of the planet that is in the earth itself! He was on the edge of showing that you could use the whole grid of the planet magnetically to broadcast electricity and pick it up where you need it, safely, with no wires. But the earth was not ready for it.
Tesla died a broken man, filled with ideas that would have brought peace to planet Earth, but he was simply not allowed to give any of them to you.
Now I'll tell you why he was stopped, dear ones, and it's the first time we have ever told you – because these inventions were too easy to weaponize. Humanity just isn't ready for it. You're not ready for massless objects, either, for the principles are too easy to weaponize.
Now I'll tell you why he was stopped, dear ones, and it's the first time we have ever told you – because these inventions were too easy to weaponize. Humanity just isn't ready for it. You're not ready for massless objects, either, for the principles are too easy to weaponize.
"So," you might say, "when will we be ready for it?" I think you already know the answer, don't you? At the time when Human consciousness reaches a point where that which is most important is unification and not separation, it will happen. A point where conquering and power are not desirable ideas or assets. A point where humanity will measure the strength of its population by how healthy they are and not by economic growth. A point where coming together with your neighbor is the main objective to social consciousness, and not conquering them or eliminating them. That's coming, dear ones. It's a ways away, but it's coming. Look around the planet at the moment. The old energy leaders are obvious, are they not? It's like they are relics in a world of thinking that is passing them by. ….”
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