Wood doesn’t burn or rot in the lifeless vacuum of space, but it will incinerate into a fine ash upon reentry into Earth’s atmosphere — making it a surprisingly useful, biodegradable material for future satellites.
Don’t metal ones burn up fine?
For the most part, yes. The problem is pollution, like aluminum oxide.
Here is an article that explains better than I ever could: https://www.space.com/air-pollution-reentering-space-junk-detected
Sounds like a radical achievement if they pull it off.
Nobody else could say they built a wooden space machine and put it into orbit successfully
I’m curious what kind of fasteners they use
Self-sealing stembolts.
Probably dowels, maybe some glue. Doubt they would use threaded fasteners for a demonstration like this.
Darn. Could have been big ammunition in the Phillips vs straighthead war.
Ugh, Robertson all the way.
Hex socket!
Torx.
The only one actually engineered for its application.
Proprietary sacrilege. I ain’t paying extra for a shape. Not to mention, which Torx? There are literally half a dozen varieties.
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Acceptable.
The dream of wooden pirate starships becomes reality!
Awe, a little baby Borg cube! Are they going to put an AI on that?
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