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Old 01-06-2019, 11:44 AM   #1949
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Yeah, it started off with one "fin" IIRC... Ummm, Elon?

And I hope they don't paint it.
I think he said they can't paint it even if they wanted to. I certainly don't understand the physics behind it well, but as I understand it, stainless steel is a good conductor of heat. So the gist is that the entire thing will be one giant heat shield, and they'll have liquid cooling under the surface to move heat around even more.

Or something like that.
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