Tesla to Make Molecule Printers for Gates-Backed Vaccine Developer (reuters.com) 84
Tesla is building mobile molecule printers to produce a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed in Germany by CureVac, reports Reuters:
CureVac, an unlisted German company, has said it is developing portable, automated mRNA production units that it calls printers and which Musk described as "RNA microfactories". They are being designed to be shipped to remote locations, where they can churn out its vaccine candidate and other mRNA-based therapies depending on the recipe fed into the machine. But for the immediate pandemic use — should its vaccine candidate win market approval — it has production sites with regulatory approval in Germany with a capacity to produce hundreds of millions of doses. The company, based in Tuebingen and backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a pioneer of the so-called messenger RNA approach, which is also pursued by BioNTech and its partner Pfizer as well as Moderna....
The "microfactories" would be built at Tesla Grohmann Automation in Germany, Musk said in a Twitter thread late on Wednesday night.
The "microfactories" would be built at Tesla Grohmann Automation in Germany, Musk said in a Twitter thread late on Wednesday night.
O.M.Fucking. G. (Score:4, Funny)
Re: O.M.Fucking. G. (Score:1)
Xenu.
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Re:O.M.Fucking. G. (Score:5, Informative)
Yeah, but I like the new Bill better than the old one.
The Lizard People are our friends.
You forgot Flat Earth (Score:2)
Ah, common, man!
You forgot to add "Flat Earth" to the list of keywords.
I can't win this "Conspiracy Theory Bingo" !
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Don't you understand that Melinda Gates is one of the Lizard People? She's a member of a branch of the Rothschild family. She KILLED the real Bill Gates in 1998 and replaced him with a clone!
Is it too late to give her a medal?
Re: O.M.Fucking. G. (Score:1)
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i never thought much about her one way or the other
but now i am starting to have a new found respect for her
i can not help but wonder
will there be a volume 2
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I, for one, welcome our new Lizard overlords.
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Well, a lot of the projects funded by that foundation indirectly supported Microsoft, at least around a decade ago. I haven't exactly trusted it after that was revealed. OTOH, if you can figure out how nanobots to track people can support Microsoft, your paranoia is deeper than mine.
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Nothing necessarily nefarious, it indirectly supported Microsoft because that was the industry sector that Gates and most of the Foundation knew. They knew that Windows/Office/Sharepoint would do the job and didn't want to waste time, funds and energy reinventing the wheel. Now that the OS and OSS sectors are more developed they'll do things like buy schools Android tablets and finance open source ventilator plans (plus they have a frack of a lot more money now).
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Sigh...
The worst part about your post is I am unsure if you believe what you have posted or is just a sarcastic parody.
As someone who likes to gravitate towards this sort of humor, I have found I needed to tone it down in the past decade. Because there are too many people who don't understand it, and will believe what ever crap they see.
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You can always add a "/s" to indicate you really do intend sarcasm. Works like a charm.
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I'm a little surprised to find that the traditional Gates-Hate is being replaced by Musk-Hate. Generally irrational in both cases, and utterly impossible to change the minds of the True Believers with any amount of facts or data.
Hopefully this printer will also be able to (Score:2)
print small one-man submarines to help save kids from pedos.
Remember that time... (Score:1, Insightful)
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They didn't go to the hospitals because all 1 million robotaxis on the road [electrek.co] are equipped with five - one for each passenger. Admit that they're doing much more good there, close to the COVID-20 victims.
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Newsom walked back his claims [politico.com] in your article. And they were stupid claims, as hospitals were thanking Tesla left and right for their donations [twitter.com]. But of course, this is how hit pieces work - get the hit out, and nobody notices the retraction.
Of course, your piece was about donations, not manufacturing. SpaceX was a supplier for Medtronic [medtronic.com], making parts that they were bottlenecked on. Tesla also started developing their own ventilators from car parts [youtube.com], but as Musk tweeted at the time, he expected there to be
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Lora Kolodny, one of the most anti-Tesla hacks on Earth, is your source? I literally just linked to you ***actual hospitals thanking Tesla for their donations, and Metronic stating that SpaceX is making key parts from them***.
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Are you daft? Do you see the Medtronic link in the post you replied to? Metronic, on its own website, stating that Musk had SpaceX make critical parts for them?
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You're expecting rational discourse from someone whose username is "felon_musk"? "Huh, huh,huh, I made a funny pun. I can't wait to call him that during recess."
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Yeah, yeah, I know - don't feed the trolls. They're now resorting to mass posting the exact same already debunked arguments, so no point wasting any more of my life on them.
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Making parts for a device is not the same thing as making the device. Stop moving the goalposts. Musk did not manufacture ventilators [forbes.com]. Or are you going to say you know more than the hospitals who received this equipment?
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The original claim was working in collaboration with Medtronic to make ventilators. Quit trying to move the goalposts to "making the device".
And yes, they also made extensive donations of equipment that they didn't manufacture [twitter.com] - PPE, non-invasive ventilators, and invasive ventilators.
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Oh, and as for the "wrong type" BS: notice that your hit piece (which traces back to Russ Mitchell, an anti-Tesla troll nearly as bad as Lora Kolodny) contains a line at the very top, "For an update to this story, go here"? Did you think nobody would bother to click that link? It cites the COO of Mount Sinai calling BS on the claim that they're the "wrong type of ventilators" and can't be used.
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Does it really matter which company Musk had help Medtronic? The Buffalo factory was shut down. Tesla made donations of equipment that they imported from China and worked on their own ventilator program.
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Don't worry, they'll likely be needed again in Texas, Florida, Arizona, South Carolina if things keep on the way they are.
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Even Texas has a major surplus of ventilators right now. What they're short on is ICU beds. It's very unlikely ventilators will be in short supply ever again during this pandemic, given how much time has passed to allow production to catch up.
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He did. However the need for ventilators never reached the peak that everyone expected, which is a good thing.
I'll take a pass for now. (Score:2)
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Contradicted by the Bloomberg survey last fall.
And for what little it's worth, I should add, my own ownership experience.
Sad to see (Score:2)
I'd like to see how the hundreds of millions of beta testers of the new printed vaccine turn out, before I even give taking a printed vaccine a second thought.
Old days of Slashdot, most readers would have been first in line because they understand and support new technologies. I would be the first volunteer if it were here.
Nowadays, how many posters to Slashdot could be distinguished from luddites really?
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Most of the tech stuff has gotten too easy, Take a Parrot drone out of the box, install the app on the iToy they can barely configure, peek in the neighbor's window, and people think they're a l33t hacker. Once upon a time even commoners could add a line in the Config.sys and Autoexec.bat to make a new sound card load its drivers and use the correct interrupt, now most people don't even know what drivers and interrupts even are but still consider themselves "techies".
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Most of the tech stuff has gotten too easy
You make a good point, people may enjoy technology now but it's a lot easier to enjoy without understanding it, they way you used to have to a little bit at least...
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Lol. Up your game.
Parrot drone too easy for you? Build a 3D printer or CnC and design and build your own.
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I'd like to see how the hundreds of millions of beta testers of the new printed vaccine turn out, before I even give taking a printed vaccine a second thought.
Meanwhile, I'm going to beta-test the experimental vaccine, while you add one to the death count.
Fear that leads to inaction has no survival value.
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It's likely that your ancestors were protected by his saber-tooth-wearing ancestors.
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You must be of limited intelligence.
A vaccine is a vaccine. Does not matter if you cook it in some chemicals or use that approach.
The result is the same, that is the point.
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Maybe. Some of the mRNA vaccines are actually more like purpose-build viruses themselves. The "what could go wrong" is actually pretty deep. I don't know if this is one of the ones like that, some are "less sophisticated". If it gets offered to me, I'll need to do a bunch of research before deciding.
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RNA vaccines are different. Conventional vaccines use bits of actual virus. RNA vaccines are just blueprints that get your own cells to manufacture the bits.
They're groundbreaking because you can more or less program them for whatever you want. They're also very new. They work quite well in animals, but this will be the first time (I'm aware of) that they've been used in humans.
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Are you perhaps mixing up RNA with mRNA?
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mRNA is RNA.
Yes, I left off the prefix. Thank you for pointing that out.
Hackers (Score:1)
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I know that you're making a funny, but what this foolishness has amply demonstrated is that our civilization is **NOT** ready for a bio-weapon attack by anyone even vaguely competent. If this had been a disease with similar virulence and incubation time but a 10% critical-care need rather than less than 1% our medical systems would have collapsed and world trade along with it. It would still be difficult and moderately expensive, but it's trust-fund-kid and grad student level now, no longer the domain of
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No. It's not an organism printer. It assembles a strand of messenger RNA that is a blueprint to produce a single protein.
I suppose you could theoretically program it to produce a prion, if you knew the code, but you could also do that in your basement using stuff you bought from Amazon.
Ooh molecule printers. (Score:2)
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We already grow diamonds in labs that are indistinguishable from extracted diamonds, except for microscopic laser etchings that make them distinguishable. It's almost like diamonds really aren't that rare, and are just rare-ified by a de facto single source provider of a commodity that spends a massive amount of money to prop up their monopoly through marketing and bullshit.
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There's that. It's also true that small diamonds are pretty cheap. And small doesn't mean only a few thousand atoms in size. I've had phonographs which used needles with a diamond point. Also see: https://www.diamondtech.com/pr... [diamondtech.com]
Really cool... but what are they for? (Score:2)
You can't just whip up vaccines locally out of some goo better than a big factory full of goo... So something is missing here? Are we back to experimenting on small populations of helpless and desperate people in remote villages again?
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... you miss that it is about mRNA based vaccines ...
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I admire Musk for a lot of things. He is one of the few people in the world with a big idea and has the resources and will to try it. That said, he is still a human like the rest of us, and he is a business man. So he will often go on crazy rants about stuff, just because he can and is popular enough for people to listen to him.
Like a lot of us, we had plans for a few months. COVID-19 stopped a lot of them. Vacations, Family Visits, Graduations, even going out for Ice Cream. For Musk, he had the first Sp
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One year of success (Score:2)
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Oh, gods, are you one of the loonies responsible for the rising cases of polio because of "The Gates Foundation is sterilizing our children through vaccines" idiocy? People like that deserve to die horribly.
Windows vs Linux (Score:1)