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19-10-2007, 19:15

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Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII

Why does NASA make so many things gold? Does it have something to do with cosmic radiation?

Radiation is right, but it's infrared. Gold happens to have a useful combination of characteristics, including reflecting away a lot of infrared "heat" that could otherwise be a problem in a sunlit vacuum. Another useful feature of gold: you need only an extremely thin layer of it to do the job.

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