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Re: Re Re: Dream Choice of Sextant
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2005 Aug 12, 11:57 -0400
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2005 Aug 12, 11:57 -0400
Until the breakup of the USSR most titanium was
terribly expensive. IIRC they controlled the largest production sources? And it
was considered a strategic defense resource by all parties. Now, it is simply
expensive--and still terribly expensive to work. If the properties are right it
might make a dream sextant but the kind we'd only see offered in the Nieman
Marcus Christmas Catalog.
