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Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing

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  • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

    Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing

    Proboscis of Female Mosquitoes Can Print in Finer Detail Than Expensive and Fragile Commercial Tips

    https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2026/January/mosquito-proboscis-3D-printing

    Steve BellovinS This user is from outside of this forum
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    @cstross Imagine, if you will, mosquito breeding facilities. Then imagine a hack or natural disaster or carelessness…

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    • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

      Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing

      Proboscis of Female Mosquitoes Can Print in Finer Detail Than Expensive and Fragile Commercial Tips

      https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2026/January/mosquito-proboscis-3D-printing

      JordiJ This user is from outside of this forum
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      @cstross so the printer makers will create mosquito farms? To… reap their mouths and put them in machines?

      The horror story (almost) writes itself.

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      • JordiJ Jordi

        @cstross so the printer makers will create mosquito farms? To… reap their mouths and put them in machines?

        The horror story (almost) writes itself.

        Charlie StrossC This user is from outside of this forum
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        @jguillaumes The sex industry entrepreneur who is first to market with a RealFlesh™ Fleshlight is going to make a killing …

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        • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

          Mosquitoes' Bloodsucking Tubes Could Enable High-Definition 3D Printing

          Proboscis of Female Mosquitoes Can Print in Finer Detail Than Expensive and Fragile Commercial Tips

          https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2026/January/mosquito-proboscis-3D-printing

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          @cstross Just integrate the entire mosquito into the machine. The Gigeresque Lynch hybrid horror of this is, in itself, is a kind of disturbing art form. I wonder if we're not subconsciously doing this as revenge. Either way, those two details will be big selling points. Call it a revenge printer.

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          • JordiJ Jordi

            @cstross so the printer makers will create mosquito farms? To… reap their mouths and put them in machines?

            The horror story (almost) writes itself.

            Log 🪵L This user is from outside of this forum
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            Log 🪵
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            @jguillaumes @cstross They have already turned entire spiders into robot grasping tools.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrobotics

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            • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

              @jguillaumes The sex industry entrepreneur who is first to market with a RealFlesh™ Fleshlight is going to make a killing …

              HighlandLawyerH This user is from outside of this forum
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              @cstross @jguillaumes
              Didn't some bloke write a novel with a plot point being 3d printers making things along that line? 😉

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              • HighlandLawyerH HighlandLawyer

                @cstross @jguillaumes
                Didn't some bloke write a novel with a plot point being 3d printers making things along that line? 😉

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                @HighlandLawyer @jguillaumes You aren't wondering how the RealFlesh™ in the RealFlesh Fleshlights is harvested, or who from?

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                • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

                  @HighlandLawyer @jguillaumes You aren't wondering how the RealFlesh™ in the RealFlesh Fleshlights is harvested, or who from?

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                  @cstross @HighlandLawyer googled (or more precisely ‘ecosia-Ed’ it.

                  Yuck .

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                  • Charlie StrossC Charlie Stross

                    @jguillaumes The sex industry entrepreneur who is first to market with a RealFlesh™ Fleshlight is going to make a killing …

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                    @cstross @jguillaumes
                    I once read a story about that.

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                    • JordiJ Jordi

                      @cstross so the printer makers will create mosquito farms? To… reap their mouths and put them in machines?

                      The horror story (almost) writes itself.

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                      @jguillaumes @cstross I believe not even Lexx:The Dark Zone went there.

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