buttercup- one lucky duck

so the best of the internet today brings us buttercup, the duck, who was born with the backward foot.

quite a story i think. that a duck is born with a backwards foot. and someone is surgically attaching for him a new forward foot.

but that wasn't the story. the story was that his new foot was brought about by 3D printing.

i'm not all that sure i understand what is so miraculous about being able to print "things."

i'm only sorry that i didn't think of marketing that. because it's really to me, rather a simple concept. in fact i used to do it all the time. i used to print off copies of things like the pattern for cubes on cardstock. and then i'd cut the patterns out and fold them together to make "dice" for games. stuff like that. so printing more complicated things on more complicated materials to assemble, doesn't really seem like all that big of a deal to me.

anyway, don't you think that a duck who was born with a backward foot might be lucky enough to have found a human who could replace his foot, and THAT would be the big story, without the so-called miracle of his foot being a printed foot?

anyway. buttercup. one lucky duck.