Down-striking discovery (non-technical)

[Susan Kline]

At 11:59 PM 09/29/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>>Wooden cases might not make as much sense
>>as plastic and metal, out there
>
>I believe you have fallen into a trap of the american mind: "If it ain't
>titanium, it ain't the best." Sometimes wood is just more efficient,
>particularly for weight/strength ratios.
>
>I don't know about later models, but I remember reading news articles about
>how astounded the US astronauts were to find wooden structural members in
>Soyuz spacecraft during the Apollo - Soyuz hookups.
>
>Dave Stocker
>Tumwater, WA

! Great construction material, wood, abundant in the Soviet Union. 

I was thinking only of availability in outer space, once materials could be 
acquired there. Plastic or metal piano cases wouldn't make sense if the
materials 
had to be brought from Earth. 

Susan