From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 20:32:34 MDT
Ron h. indicated:
<<Spudboy,
Yes, that fits what I remember. I had been in Mechanical Engineering
until an elective course in statistics diverted me into Industrial
Engineering -- that was like being lost and suddenly turning a corner and
recognizing you were home. I didn't know I had been unhappy until suddenly I
found something that was always fun.
But the point is I basically quit keeping up with that whole corner of
engineering in 1964. I probably didn't think about it again until the 80s or
90s. I couldn't figure out how a 1982 treaty killed an idea that I was
reading about back in the 60s -- now all is much more clear.
Ron h>>
Yes, we need not blame the UN (this time) for money chasing lucretive
prospects in Silicon Valley, or Malaysia. Rather, the dynamics of a global
economy, that was not so dependent on strategic metals as one thought has
been the rule. Both Russia and South Africa and Latin America have been
replete with abundant resources, for global industry, as well as the US
military needs for speciality metals. This doesn't mean that we all should be
smug, but that things were never as dire as depicted by news orgs, and that
this is predominantly, the case. The development of oil extraction from the
ocean floor, might easily forestall the Hubbert curve for 40 years.
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