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2 Nov 2024 18:47:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pioneer WIP  
From: TC
Date: 16 May 2010 15:06:26
Message: <4bf04232@news.povray.org>
I doubt the plate looks aged at all. It probably is still as shiny as it was 
when the spacecraft was launched.

No oxygen in space to corrode it (and gold does not corrode easily, anyway), 
no dust to grind it down. At the velocities involved even a small speck 
would either make a neat hole or destroy the whole spacecraft.


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