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Old 25-August-2007, 04:41 PM
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Stainless steel has an absorptivity of about 0.4. Aluminumized mylar has an absorptivity of about 0.1. Just because a DeLorean looks vaguely shiny like a command module doesn't mean the computations work out the same.
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