14 DAY TRIAL // You'd think that a still infant technological field like 3D printing wouldn't fall prey to grand ambitions just yet, but reality doesn't seem to reflect expectations.
Not that there's any danger of the concept crashing and burning at this point, but it looks as though some people really are getting outlandish ideas.
And in the case of Swedish artists Mikael Genberg, outlandish may have a more literal meaning than you might think.
You see, he's trying to raise funds for a 3D printed house located on the surface of the moon. A red house, too, that will add some color to the otherwise grey astral object. It should be big enough for one person.
His plan is to make the house inflatable, somehow (using pressurized gas, since the moon has no atmosphere of its own).
He doesn't say how he'll use 3D printing to pull it off, or anything about the practical stuff really.
Sounds unlikely to be possible? Maybe, but Genberg has already sold the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) on the idea and got $15,360,000 / €11,300,000 out of it. After all, this is the man who constructed a single underwater hotel room in a Swedish lake back in 2000.
The small red house is supposed to be a symbol of “thinking bigger thoughts.”