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akihitosan
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I think to call a big machine a material is very wrong.
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betwixthewires
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Why? Isn't the distinction somewhat arbitrary? A lattice or scaffold is indistinguishable from a crysralling structure only due to it's scale, but when a large, rigid ststructure is built it functions on a larger scale as a sort of material.
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