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Re: New Falling Satellite!
> Ever feel like there's too many dang hunks of metal hurtling around
> the Earth at ungodly speeds? I no longer feel safe...
Small consolation: this satellite's made of a high-tech 21st-century
material called black oak. Or at least, that's what the Chinese use
as an ablative heat shield for their reentry capsules. Whatever works :-)
-- Adam
[a new niche: intercontinental ballistic lumber delivery?]