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The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter probe will be coated in a substance derived from burnt bone charcoal — a type of pigment once used by early humans to create art on the insides of caves in France.
Thanks 12th_Monkey.
15 posted on
02/14/2014 7:52:16 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: SunkenCiv
So cavemen are helping us send a robot into space. Who’d have thought they knew the best paint recipe?
16 posted on
02/14/2014 9:09:01 PM PST by
Berosus
(I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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