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To: Neil H who wrote (336698)	12/1/2009 2:58:10 AM
From: LindyBill	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793954

I remember when all of our athletic shoes were made in USA and were getting pricey (past the PF flyer, converse and keds days of our youth). Then all of the sudden more and more of those shoes were made in other Asian countries, yet guess what - the prices of the shoes did not come down. I tend to react strongly to posts that seem protectionist. When it comes to free trade, that which is seen are companies that quit making products that they can't compete on. What is not seen is the mother of 3 at Wal Mart saving 30% on what she buys. Shoes are in interesting item. I bought my last pair of athletic shoes at Wal Mart for twenty dollars. $5 of that was a tariff that has been in place for decades. Nobody competes anymore, but the Gov still makes them more expensive.

To: Neil H who wrote (336698)	12/1/2009 11:15:07 AM
From: J.B.C.	Respond to of 793954

You need to change your paradigm, let the chinese construct tennis shoes, we can get about any country to do that. US leads technolocically, for example, these aren't being built in sweat shops: Carbon Nanotube Performance Checked Out In Space Aviation Week & Space Technology Nov 30 , 2009 , p. 18 Edited by Frank Morring, Jr. Printed headline: Nanotube Demo A proof-of-concept experiment with radiation-resistant carbon nanotube-based memory devices has demonstrated that they can be operated in space regardless of the rigors of launch. The wafers of carbon Nanotube Random Access Memory (NRAM)—similar to the one at right being examined by a technician—performed as well after reentry into the atmosphere as they did in benchmark tests before launch. Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, Calif., and Nantero of Woburn, Mass., conducted the experiment on last May’s STS-125 mission of space shuttle Atlantis. While the shuttle crew was servicing the Hubble Space Telescope, the Lockheed Martin/Nantero experiment was autonomously validating the nanotube memory devices. Lockheed Martin Vice President Jim Ryder calls the shuttle experiment “an important step” toward a suite of future applications for the technology. Lockheed Martin holds a license agreement for government applications of the core nanotube-based technology that Nantero is developing for carbon NRAM systems. Nanotubes are cylindrical molecules only 1/50,000 the diameter of a human hair with properties of interest for many reasons. They have half the density of aluminum but 50 times the strength of steel. And they are thermally stable in vacuum up to nearly 3,000C, efficient conductors of heat and may be either metallic or direct band gap semiconductors. That gives them “tremendous potential for a wide range of future space-based applications,” says Dan Powell, chief of nanotechnology at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which managed the project.