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To: Blood of Tyrants; All

Unobtainium - An engineer friend of mine used that term a decade + before that movie came out, “It’s expensive, it’s in submarine hulls and expensive motorcycle parts” was his joke.

He has a Saharan wit, seeing an A-arm assembly on the side of the road on the way to a job one day elicited the comment “You NEED those”...


14 posted on 01/21/2015 7:37:17 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Axenolith

I believe that unobtanium was used to build the boring vessel in the movie, The Core.


29 posted on 01/21/2015 8:12:04 AM PST by sportutegrl
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