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Last mile delivery? Grey paint to the rescue! (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] mech@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I heard they also found it was too expensive to design a cooling pipe that would reliably transport liquid to the tip of the rocket in zero G, so instead of a rocket they launched a pencil.