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A small company in Austin, Texas, has received a $US125,000 grant from NASA to develop 3D printed food for astronauts. The challenges are multifold – not least among them producing something palatable out of a printer – but the idea is that with enough development, NASA might be able to come up with something that beats the …

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    1. ravenviz Silver badge
      Happy

      Re: If the printer itself costs £125k......

      Unless you can somewhow refill them with your own ingredients.

      1. Midnight

        Re: If the printer itself costs £125k......

        Soylent Ink is people! It's PEOPLE!

  1. WibbleMe

    Space ginger Bread men Yay!

  2. Stoneshop
    Pint

    "something palatable out of a printer"

    Sucking on their towels' corners getting a bit old?

  3. David 30

    Printer jam sandwiches

    Those astronauts are going to be mighty hungry the first time they have to wait 3 days for an engineer callout

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Devil

    Food printer cartridges=future source of 50% of HP's profits?

    Choose correct Meg Whitman response below:

    A) Pressing fingertips together ala Montgomery Burns and breathily hissing "Excellent!"

    B) Stroke white Persian cat while watching liftoff of rocket bearing food printer

    C) Sitting in dark corner suite saying "Everything is transpiring as I have forseen...."

  5. Richard Cartledge
    Thumb Up

    I think you would need 7 heads and cartridges for flavours such as sour, ugami, sweet..... and one big one for Soylent as in yesterday's thread. Colour can be added with google glass.

  6. Chris 242

    Tea ! it's a spiritual thing

    Before we (the Brits) start anything a bit tricky ( i.e.fighting obscene amount of aliens) put the kettle on #1.

    and ponder

    During the course of fighting, aquire a mild effort induced glow.

    After the slaying of all said tricky stuff, put the kettle on. it's the british way.

    not a "whoop whoop" in sight , just the tinkle of spoon on the rim.

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Food out of a printer

    Appearing soon on a Ryanair flight near you.

  8. kain preacher

    Printer on fire

    Naw that's just how it heats the food.

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  10. Chairo
    Joke

    I guess this machine will be called

    "The Liberator" - for obvious reasons -

  11. James Rouse
    Coat

    PC_LOAD_LETTUCE

    that is all.

  12. HippyFreetard

    Divide by cucumber. Out of cheese error.

    It's not all that much money, and could make it cheaper to get the 'nauts fed. Every ounce flown into space has an immense price tag. By the time a freeze-dried sterilised burger makes it to the ISS, it's worth more than gold.

    Some sort of green soy-lentil amalgamation perhaps? Although it would be very difficult to tell what was really in it. It could be people, or even worse - horse...

  13. Fred Flintstone Gold badge

    Uh oh - flying saucer alert

    I suspect that if the pizzas from such a machine are not edible, we will see a rise in UFO reports...

    1. kain preacher

      Re: Uh oh - flying saucer alert

      "I suspect that if the pizzas from such a machine are not edible"

      Naw public school lunch pizza then.

  14. Matt_payne666

    perfected the printing years ago...

    its ejecting the tasty morsels from the machine that requires work

    'Jam inside' errors used to occur regularly on one of my printers...

  15. RISC OS

    TOS Coloured Cubes

    I think they won't really have a replicate as such, more like a slot that opens and delivers plastic coloured cubes like in start trek the original series.

  16. Martin Budden Silver badge
    Go

    418 I'm a teapot

    If ever there was an opportunity to use this HTTP code, here it is!

  17. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    You realize what this means, don't you?

    EDIBLE HANDGUNS!

    My god, we're doomed! Not only will they be undetectable, but the vile criminals will be able to eat the murder weapon! We must restrict the export of this violent technology!@#

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      EDIBLE HANDGUNS!

      hey, pull my finger. Ooops.

  18. dave 100
    Holmes

    Full circle?

    I wonder if combined with a large vat, they could make this full circle, grow most of the raw materials 'Quorn' style in a old booster, using the waste from the loo. Then just ship a minimal amount of the nutritional requirements that are missing.

  19. sisk

    Are you sure this was NASA and not DARPA?

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