onto the titanium. Rotocort fire, all sorts of mayhem resulted. And one wonders whether our ability to machine things down to that level of precision is taxing our mechanical abilities. And whether we've reached, we should say, OK, our jet engines are powerful enough, they're fast enough. Let's just, until we never find new materials or something like that, let's just not push things. And oddly enough, since the book was written, I guess I finished it last December, this problem has really gathered momentum. And at the moment, as we speak, there is something like 110 jet aircraft waiting for engines in Toulouse, in France, in Boeing factories in Washington State and down in South Carolina, because no engines can be made that are good enough and free of these kind of mechanical faults because the technology of building these engines is becoming so difficult. So in a funny sort of world, the way the physical world is telling us, maybe you've gone far enough, let's pause for a moment. (24/57)
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