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We’ll able to surfe a 3D-printed replica of Pipeline in a wave pool (once they make a more powerful wave pool)

Remember how just a few years ago, the thought of high-quality artificial waves with lengthy tube sections and air ramps seemed like the stuff of science fiction? Well, it’s amazing how quickly science fiction turned into science fact, and today our Instagram feeds are chock-full of surfers locking into 10-second drainers in Lemoore, California, or aerial artistes performing all manner of inversions above the lip in Waco, Texas. So now that we’re officially living in the

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