[Gllug] Off Topic ( WAS (How do they manage it? (IT recruitment agencies)))

[Stig Brautaset]

* Jackson, Harry <HJackson at colt-telecom.com> spake thus:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon Stewart [mailto:sms at digital-science.net]
> > There was something about this in New Scientist a month or so ago. A
> > quick trawl through the archive suggests a method of extracting
> > titanium from "black sand" via electrolysis has been discovered which
> > may reduce the cost of the metal (to the point where it might be
> > usable to manufacture car parts)

The Russians had a ssn sub (the Alpha?) that where made of Titanium.
It could go really deep (due to the Titanium hull) and really really
really fast (NOT due to the Titianium hull, but rather an experimental
reactor). You could hear it from halvway around the world, but it really
didn't matter, because it outran all the torpedoes at the time.

> 	Now what a gadget that would be, you could have a titanium car,
> watch and no person could go without the titanium Blankety Blank cheque book
> and pen although you would need a Diamond tipped scriber for writing cheques
> they wouldn't so much bounce as ricochet (Twenty years time "That's the
> fourth cheque you have ricocheyed this month Mr Jackson. We will have to
> revoke your titanium account before someone gets killed). 

Marvellous. I'll place an order for one of those checkbooks now :P

Regards, Stig

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