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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

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    Ratsnake Games 🔞
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    @cstross Deeply, profoundly cursed.

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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

      It's almost like hurriedly making all the animals and insects go extinct is a bad idea

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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

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          Jordi
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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.

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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 …

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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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