Is it cool? Yes. Will it get scorching hot when left in the sunlight? Absolutely ;)

Titanium has a relatively low thermal conductivity for a metal.

Which should make it hotter, right?

The actual temperature only depends on the surface color.

The perceived temperature is that less conductive objects are less hot/cool than more conductive ones.

But a lower thermal conductivity will make it feel less hot when you sit on it.

Do you have a link for that? For some reason, this made me really curious.

It wasn't a link, it was a prop at a trade show to get you to talk to the folks about their 3D printer that could print metal, that said I would have expected them to create some sort of version of it that was accessible to the web. I've sent off an question to my machinist buddy who was there as well to see if he remembers which company did it.

Google just brings me back to your comment :)

Maybe like this one? https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/12/412300/6034129/stac...

Except the titanium is grey rather than brass colored.

we just want the link

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? I'm afraid you've been doing it a lot, and we ban accounts that post that way. We're trying, if possible, for something a bit better than internet median here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"I expect that chair to outlive the company and possibly humans on the planet" is a sentence that I would react to with the opposite emotion :-(

When future cockroach geologists look upon this artifact they might speculate it was a throne for the giant creatures that used to rule the planet :-)

You assume they might know or appreciate chairs and thrones. More likely they see it as an ancient monolith.

Well, they may recognize the shape of the chair as being similar to the stations at the end of the ancient transport system the precursors created. But since that system of tubes was too small for humans to travel through, it must have been something from an even older culture that humans co-opted and used in their ritualistic worship of the rectangle deity.

Reminded me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653567

Why? It's durable you can clean the chair and reuse it without throwing it away and creating a new chair.

Because it implies an end to humanity on this planet that does not also incorporate an end to that titanium chair. That any physical object could outlive humanity means that humanity will end far before it should.

When should humanity end?

I don't think he was thinking of this in such a draconian way.