Gold vs. Titanium, Style vs. Substance
I was listening to a jewelry commercial on the radio and there was some guy talking about the gold jewelry he buys his wife and what the gold symbolizes – permanence and preciousness and what not. While gold has lots of applications besides jewelry because of its non-reactiveness, it’s traditionally expensive because of what other people think of it. It's value is in the mind of the consumer.
I much prefer titanium and what it symbolizes. It is valued for its properties and the way it performs. It has substance. It has an awesome strength to weight ratio. (That’s sort of one of my motivators for working out and lifting – to achieve an awesome strength to weight ratio.) Because of its versatility, it has tons of applications – everything from sports equipment, to sunscreen, to the roof of the Peter B. Lewis building. I figure, if titanium is good enough to be used on spacecraft, it’s definitely good enough for me to wear as jewelry. I aspire to be like the titanium that I want to wear.
posted by CollaterKal @ 1:41 PM
4 Comments:
spoken like a true engineer. I totally dig the idea of titanium jewelry, but I've only seen it once, on a guy I loathed and with whom I was forced to work on a two-semester grad school project. He said that if the ring ever got crushed on his finger, they'd have to cut his finger off to remove the ring.
Was that the dude who you insisted could not write a complete sentence unaided?
My brother's wedding band is of titanium. I think the first one was white gold, the second sterling silver, and the third titanium. I think it looks way cool. (He keeps losing them, not divorcing and remarrying!)
And it must be nice knowing that if anyone ever needs some scrap metal to make a space ship, you could make a contribution...
you can probably get your wedding ring in titanium with a diamond in the middle.
Yes!!! I work with titanium frequently and have the exact same opinion. If I ever get married, I would like the bands to be titanium. My current spacecraft utilizes a lot of composites and berrylium, but berrylium can be toxic and I don't want a composite wedding band mostly because I've only seen black composites and that doesn't seem like a very good symbol.
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~Liz
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