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Swords into Plowshares
SulliedGoon
post Jul 27 2011, 06:22 PM
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I have heard of a bizarre but plausible tale
about satellites/spacecraft and old German
Warships.

The claim is certain very sensitive instruments
require pre-1945 metals as part of their manufacture
because testing during the atomic era has rendered all post-1945
metals too noisy for such purposes.

Futhermore, the source for this pre-1945 metal is
the German High Seas Fleet, scuttled after World War One.

It is said some of this salvaged "Kaiser" metal made its way onto
some of the Apollo missions and/or other spacecraft instrumentation.

Is there any truth to this or is it just
some type of freakish urban myth?
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- SulliedGoon   Swords into Plowshares   Jul 27 2011, 06:22 PM
- - AndyG   I've read in several sources that some of this...   Jul 27 2011, 06:40 PM
- - djellison   An interesting subject - but I would remind people...   Jul 27 2011, 08:47 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   I don't see how deep buried metal ores, isolat...   Jul 27 2011, 09:12 PM
- - AndyG   Presumably it's easier/cheaper to machine read...   Jul 27 2011, 09:28 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   I'm not sure why you'd need a vacuum, eith...   Jul 27 2011, 10:12 PM
|- - SulliedGoon   Found this paragraph quoted from a debunker websit...   Jul 27 2011, 11:03 PM
|- - AndyG   QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Jul 27 201...   Jul 27 2011, 11:32 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   The discussion here was about iron and steel, whic...   Jul 28 2011, 02:48 AM
- - stevesliva   This post: http://ask.metafilter.com/129236/Are-sa...   Jul 28 2011, 05:14 AM

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