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First Wooden Satellite Breaks New Ground in Sustainable Space Exploration. Are Wooden Space Shelters Next?
The Debrief ^ | June 13, 2024 | KENNA HUGHES-CASTLEBERRY

Posted on 06/17/2024 5:55:28 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 06/17/2024 5:55:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: MtnClimber; SunkenCiv; mowowie; SuperLuminal; Cottonbay

Got Wood?.....................


2 posted on 06/17/2024 5:55:54 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Why would I want a porous material between me and a tremendously cold/hot vacuum?


3 posted on 06/17/2024 6:01:26 AM PDT by fso301
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To: Red Badger

Sustainability another of their commie dreams


4 posted on 06/17/2024 6:02:40 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger

It might not be bad for meteoroid resistance, because the fibers would be less prone to having nice clean holes blasted through. But otherwise, sustainability? That part’s good and nuts. :^)


5 posted on 06/17/2024 6:04:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Red Badger

This looks like a job for the big bad wolf.


6 posted on 06/17/2024 6:05:10 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40, then 35 must be the new 15.)
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Materials outgas in the absence of atmospheric pressure. This material will twist and fracture.


7 posted on 06/17/2024 6:09:03 AM PDT by Owen (.)
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8 posted on 06/17/2024 6:10:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Owen

When some types of wood dry out they become almost like styrofoam. The cells collapse..................


9 posted on 06/17/2024 6:11:26 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

NASA is currently negotiating with IKEA as a potential contractor for the next generation of satellites.


10 posted on 06/17/2024 6:12:16 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Red Badger

I remember looking into the Mercury capsule of Alan Shepard hanging in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum...A panel with switches, knobs and such was what looked like walnut wood....


11 posted on 06/17/2024 6:13:44 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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Why would I want a porous material between me and a tremendously cold/hot vacuum?

Yes, why would you want a good insulator between you and a tremendously cold/hot vacuum?

12 posted on 06/17/2024 6:14:26 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: fso301

WE GOTS TO SAVE DA SPACE FROM UNIVERSAL WARMING!...................


13 posted on 06/17/2024 6:14:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: JBW1949

Georgia Pacific was the contractor?.............


14 posted on 06/17/2024 6:15:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: SunkenCiv

Sustainability? Yeah, that’s silly.

Insulation? RF permeability? Strength? Those are interesting properties.


15 posted on 06/17/2024 6:15:55 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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Sustainability? Yeah, that’s silly.

Like their water Sustainability when we’re drowning in water, LOL


16 posted on 06/17/2024 6:18:20 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: JBW1949
A panel with switches, knobs and such was what looked like walnut wood....

Phenolic composite. It's brown. Looks like wood. Was very highly regarded in aerospace and electronics back then. Has since been overtaken by fiberglass composites and carbon-fiber composites in the decades since.

17 posted on 06/17/2024 6:18:41 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Red Badger

I had a wood stove once, but it burned up


18 posted on 06/17/2024 6:19:44 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

China will beat us wit satellites made from Bamboo...............


19 posted on 06/17/2024 6:21:10 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation built Freedom 7 Mercury capsule...


20 posted on 06/17/2024 6:21:56 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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