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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

    JohnJ This user is from outside of this forum
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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

        JordiJ This user is from outside of this forum
        JordiJ This user is from outside of this forum
        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.

          Charlie StrossC This user is from outside of this forum
          Charlie StrossC This user is from outside of this forum
          Charlie Stross
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          #6

          @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

            retechR This user is from outside of this forum
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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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              @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? 😉

                  Charlie StrossC This user is from outside of this forum
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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.

                        Simon RichterG This user is from outside of this forum
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                        @jguillaumes @cstross I believe not even Lexx:The Dark Zone went there.

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