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[–] Rapidcreek 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If any aliens find that it'll surely be a WTF moment

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Me imagining a balsa wood satellite floating up above.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Surely it'll be powered by wood and have wooden circuitry and it'll be super efficient to launch because they've figured out how to harness the power of wood popping as it burns. I can't wait to see the wooden solar panels. Good thing there's so much oxygen in space. This stuff doesn't usually make it to the surface on reentry anyway, right?

I wonder if this is a real article. I don't want to read it, but I wonder.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This stuff doesn’t usually make it to the surface on reentry anyway, right?

I'm not sure myself, but anyway that's not the problem they're trying to solve. Apparently the aluminum in normal satellites causes issues with the ozone layer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thats the one problem we know of. We know very little about the effects of burning anything at high altitude, including wood.

[–] skeezix 3 points 10 months ago

It's real. they're carving it as we speak.

[–] dylanTheDeveloper 1 points 10 months ago

They found a stump near the launch site and strapped it to a rocket

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I woodent believe it I was you.

Timber Ton, is going to make a film about it.