3D Printers To Save Hermit Crabs

But this probably takes the cake.

I have to hope this is just a (lame) attempt at advertising, and not that the dimwits involved in this actually believe that its better for the hermit crabs to ship plastic around the world, manufacture it into the spools the MakerBot uses, then use all that electricity to fabricate a plastic shell, and then tossing *plastic* into the ocean is actually going to help hermit crabs.

You know, hermit crabs -- an animal of which there are billions in the ocean. (I'm sure a few thousand suckers making these will really help the species!)

You know, an animal that will live in ANY scavanged hollow-enough item.

And if said dimwits actually believe they're helping anything, it just goes to show the aversion to reason and science isn't limited to the radical right.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/ZImAnFcpako/3d-printers-to-save-hermit-crabs

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