"Give me a 3d printer and a place to plug it in and I will create the world." - Archimedes

"...and filament. Lots of filament."

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The volume of Planet Earth is 108.321x10^10 km3.. Converted to std meters, that is 1.08321x10^21 m3.

A typical high flow 3d printer hotend (without getting insane) can hit around 25mm3/sec volumetric flow assuming no nozzle or acceleration restrictions. Converted to std meters, that is 2.5x10^-8 m3/sec.

If you ran that hotend continuously with no breaks, it would only take about 4.332x10^28 seconds to print the planet Earth... or 1.374x10^21 (1.4 sextillion!) years!

Gentlemen. We're going to need a bigger printer.
- Just set it to 5% infill in fast spaghetti mode and we can crank that baby out before the sun goes dark.
  
  I mean if you only print the side that is exposed to sun. Keep rotating that baby.
- That's why you start by printing more printers.
- A lot of us here aren't actually mortal so that's not a big deal
  
  Yeah but it's a little hard to power your printer past the heat death of the universe
  
  Every fucking century you just haaave to bring that up, don't you.
- Might need to bump up to 0.8mm
Or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof:-)
Archimedes was better known for bath thoughts.
Lol imagine thinking you would print anything without youtube!
Well unless you like miniatures in which case you're going to need resin
- Actually I printed a few decent ones with my Ender 3. A couple tests on my new A1 came out really nice.

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