Milton,
I as well have enjoyed reading every single sentence of this thread, been initiated by you. Thanks therefore!
I mean a wide variety of "terrestrial" welding experts but also "universal welders" :-) opinions and foods for thoughts has been provided and thus everything has been said on this topic.
Since I have received an e-mail briefly ago, coming from the IIW Chairman of Commission IV (Power Beam Processes), Mr. Ernest Levert, who is with the Company "Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control", working there as a Senior Staff Manufacturing Engineer, I would like to attach what he has passed on to the members or attendees respectively, of the IIW Commission mentioned above.
The two pictures he has sent, show the latest photos of the ISS Space Station and are absolutely impressive from my personal point of view. He has stated the following sentences in his mail (Quote):
"Here's the two of the latest Space Station photos.
Hope you can put them to good use."
Since these pictures are matching greatly with your topic and the ISS is a global human beings project (of course mainly headed by the United States of America) I decided to pass them on to the AWS Forum.
Well, I have considered if there could eventually exist some reasons, speaking against that I would like to pass on those great photos to all of you, but then I have decided that there is probably no better way to use them as to do so and thus to meet Ernest's hope.
I again truly hope that you, the AWS Site Editors and of course Ernest Levert may agree with me...
Best regards,
Stephan