From: dietz@dls.net   
      
   Cray74@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   > Your point is only applicable to an extreme situation and trivializes   
   > the effort involved. It's kind of like saying, "If the US needed to put   
   > 10,000 tons in orbit in a couple of years, the challenges are not   
   > insurmountable."   
      
   No, it's nothing like that.  Adding thousands of tons of titanium   
   manufacturing capacity is not an effort on the same scale as the   
   straw man you have just constructed.  In fact, it would be a small   
   investment compared to what was invested in the shuttle program overall.   
      
   What we can conclude from the fact that they didn't do this is   
   not that making titanium is impossibly hard, but that the benefits   
   of that metal, if any, for the shuttle wouldn't have justified   
   the cost.   
      
   	Paul   
      
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