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Originally Posted by bojan
That is what worries me...
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I remember a year or two back in the U.S. there was massive news where a 3D printer exploded and claimed a life (heard this on a podcast I listen to regularly). It was a tragic story but instantly the headlines read that it was an issue with the 3D printer and it painted a really bad picture on the technology saying how unsafe it is.
Drilling down into the story apparently the guy who lost his life sprayed something like 3 full cans of hairspray on the heated build plate and there was no ventilation in the room. On top of that (the parents who were magicians) had equipment stored in boxes in the same room. Now, you know when the magicians throw the ball of smoke and they vanish? Whatever those are called were in some of the boxes and it somehow caused the explosion. It is a sad story I know but the point I am making is it sounded like there was misuse of the printer.
Same with stories about explosions or houses burning down. You don't hear the full story and the media word things in a way to scare people and to make something like a new technology look bad!