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31 Jul 2024 10:28:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Pioneer WIP  
From: Nekar Xenos
Date: 18 May 2010 08:01:17
Message: <op.vcwgzohoufxv4h@go-dynamite>
On Sun, 16 May 2010 21:06:22 +0200, TC get-enough-spam-already-2498.com>  
<do-not-reply@i-do> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
Hmmm...

Maybe the corrosion is due to crashing onto their planet?

-Nekar Xenos-


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