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Re: Food Packaging

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Post by ramraj07 »

mahastore wrote: post #19

The planet dies everyday by our creations .. Yet we keep marveling at our creations everyday. Nothing changeth.

That’s because none of us truly want to give up what we have gained. You’re still commenting on a website using a computer or a phone. The only way this will fix is after the planet is truly fully fucked, where no amount of money can protect you from that, then humanity will figure out whacko ways to fix it. Many if not most will suffer indescribably, for sure. But I see no other way this will play out.

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Post by palijer »

It's incredible that we designed a material for robustness that takes hundreds of years to break down, and it is the default material for designing single use everyday items, and then rely on all the efforts of an ineffective recycling program to maybe get a couple more uses out of it.

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Post by ramraj07 »

adewinter wrote: post #10

It's weird that CT scans cost hundreds (thousands?) of dollars when used in medicine but at the airport everyone's baggage is routinely scanned for approx. $free. Is the hardware and software needed for CT scans really that expensive or not?

People are saying it’s not the same but counterpoint: An MRI scan in a state of the art facility in Chennai India in at least 50 different facilities costs 2000-4000 Rupees or $26. The machines cost the same if not more here due to import duties. Labor is cheap but these labs truly compete with each other and that’s what drives the price down. So please acknowledge that the healthcare system in the US and other places is broken.

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Post by metal_am »

adewinter wrote: post #10

It's weird that CT scans cost hundreds (thousands?) of dollars when used in medicine but at the airport everyone's baggage is routinely scanned for approx. $free. Is the hardware and software needed for CT scans really that expensive or not?

Airport scanners are not CT. They will only give you one projection. I would also be willing to bet these CT machines can only scan a very small volume. Typically, they will rotate the sample, not the X-ray source and detector. I’d imagine some of the cost comes from being able to move the source and detector while keeping everything in alignment. (Disclaimer: My experience is secondhand with scanning metals)

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Post by metal_am »

tillcarlos wrote: post #2

That’s a lot of effort being put into this website (not to speak of the scans themselves). Does anyone know how they monetize this page? Or is it just a hobby project?

I’m really wondering about this too. If it were an OEM or service provider, I would expect them to advertise the capabilities of their brand/company.

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Post by stickfigure »

While this is technology is beautiful, I think it would be easier to visualize how these products work by looking at old-fashioned still pictures of their disassembled parts.

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Post by ed »

32kfjh23 wrote: post #15
32kfjh23 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LottieFiles.

it's a webflow site using lottiefiles gifs linked to your scroll position that choose what frame of the gif you're showing idk how they went from 3d data to those images, I'd imagine whatever scanning software they use exports a lot of frames and then you can put those frames together in something like after effects and just export a gif use wappalyzer extension to figure it technologies in the future

Sounds like there's a market for scanofthemonth.comofthemonth.com

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Post by simulate-me »

palijer wrote: post #22

It's incredible that we designed a material for robustness that takes hundreds of years to break down, and it is the default material for designing single use everyday items, and then rely on all the efforts of an ineffective recycling program to maybe get a couple more uses out of it.

The material you’re taking about, plastic, is made from carbon stored inside of the Earth. If we can reliably get it back in the Earth, e.g. via landfill, then I don’t see a huge issue with it. Also, wood was a forever material prior to the evolution of white rot.

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Post by twbarr »

metal_am wrote: post #24
adewinter wrote: post #10

It's weird that CT scans cost hundreds (thousands?) of dollars when used in medicine but at the airport everyone's baggage is routinely scanned for approx. $free. Is the hardware and software needed for CT scans really that expensive or not?

Airport scanners are not CT. They will only give you one projection. I would also be willing to bet these CT machines can only scan a very small volume. Typically, they will rotate the sample, not the X-ray source and detector. I’d imagine some of the cost comes from being able to move the source and detector while keeping everything in alignment. (Disclaimer: My experience is secondhand with scanning metals)

The passenger checkpoint devices are projection imaging, but they do use CT (with rotating source/detector, just like a medical CT) for checked bags. https://www.envimet.com/en/product/examiner-xlb/
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