Magnetic Memory making a comeback?

From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
Date: Thu Jun 12 02:56:11 2003

On 2003.06.11 22:35 "Feldman, Robert" wrote:

> My favorite is that the re-entry heat shields on early missions were
> not ceramic, like ours, but were made of green oak.
That is actually smart. Wood conducts heat very bad. So you have a good
heat insulation effect. The wood will burn, but you can calculate quite
precice how much wood will be burned.
-- 
tsch??,
       Jochen
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