Eh, yes, but, no?

The Ti forgings for the SR-71 required building the world's most powerful presses. Two were made. Only one still kind of exists, IIRC.

If you're trying to do that kind of thing, yes, you need boatloads (literally) of Fiat. However, you're not building a pressure vessel. You are building a floating structure. You can do most of the work with formed sheet metal. Welding Ti is totally achievable with fairly standard practices, just with more shielding with either trailing cups and backing or various other methods used in aerospace. It's hard, but 100% doable, if you can get the material. China is pumping out millions of cheap Ti goods formed to a very precise degree. (I have a Ti flask that is comically light.) The tech is there, and achievable.

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I'm sold

We're going to need more Zaps :-p

And yet, you don't have a wallet set up... WTF?!

I'm a monster... I was going to setup my own LN node, but got called away and haven't gone back to it.

Okay, where would you recommend for hosted wallets?

Pfft. I'm a newb. WoS works, and I'm not planning to use the sats I'm zapped for anything but zapping, so I don't care about phone nodes or others.

I just use an Alby wallet here on my desktop. Works great.