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In article <3591236F.20C6@idt.net>,
Douglas Andrew Willinger  <dougwill@idt.net> wrote:

}True this costs money; usually we do hear about more exotic materials,
}though I wonder how much of this would be to the R&D, and how much to
}the unwillingness to produce new technologies, the costs of which could
}be spread out in mass production.  Were not today's bike helmetws, for
}instance, once considered exotic and expensive.

Not as far as I know.  Old bike helmets and the new bike helmets
are pretty much the same thing, only the new ones have a decorative
plastic cover instead of a net.

}Indeed, was not
}aluminum once a "precious" metal because of the expense of its
}production a century or more ago?

Yes, but that's probably the only example of something like that.

Technology can't beat momentum all the time.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."