Didn't recent newsarticles about a Yale study say that we're going to be short on copper soon? Then why are we shooting "huge copper slugs" at mars? Why not huge slugs made of some slightly more abundant metal? Or is the study just bunk?
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they
really hate is lousy programmers.
- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in "Oath of Fealty"