[TML] Alternate Firefly review

[Richard Aiken]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm.  Self-cleaning doesn't repair rips and chips.

High-tech stuff would likely be too tough to rip or chip.

> And it sounds even less
> practical than coating everything with teflon.  We certainly haven't done
> that.

Actually - as I understand it - it pretty much is coating everything
with teflon.  On the microscopic level.  Read the article, if you can.
 It explains in much better than I can.

> Besides, what's the point of making clothes that clean/fix themselves, when
> fashion dictates you buy all new in a couple months anyway.  :P

Because you can cast them off as charity, for the unwashed masses to wear?  :P

> And just because a *planet* is wealthy doesn't mean the vast unwashed masses
> will be.

Oh, certainly!  Thus the my closing "Rim folks . . . not so much." comment.

-- 
Richard Aiken

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