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hinkleyyesterday at 7:32 PM3 repliesview on HN

The whole “exploding tiny drops of metal” in the middle of this is just Loony Toons. This machine is literally insane and two of the companies I am long-long on would be completely fucked without it.


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allenrbtoday at 12:38 AM

Seeing this news story made me briefly fear that they’d found a way to replace this glorious mechanism. Thankfully not. In fact, they’re going to shoot more droplets, more often!

So much more fun than LEDs.

patmorgan23yesterday at 7:49 PM

You forgot WITH LASERS, and IN A VACUUM

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atonseyesterday at 8:04 PM

Yes it was crazy when I first heard about it "wait what? they shoot it in mid-air?" and that was before I found out they did that like 30k times a second.

But now 100k times a second apparently. Humans are amazing.

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