Things that surprised fivemack

[fivemack]

Should I be more surprised that you can buy light-weight hiking mugs made out of titanium, or that there are two sellers on Amazon of mugs branded as 'titanium' with the first entry in their description reading 'made out of porcelain' ? 'Titanium' appears to be a marketing term meaning 'shiny and slightly brown'.

There appears to be a gap in the market for people who want cutlery made of titanium (because who would not want a titanium spoon?) which isn't irredeemably ugly.

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[fivemack.livejournal.com]

For pure abundance-against-cost reasons I would have thought tellurium, which costs a few hundred dollars a kilo and has ludicrously low cosmic abundance, could be a decent investment. Though storing it would be hard, it's toxic and reasonably volatile.