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Stainless Steel

from Interplanetary Species by Mat Ward

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Elon Musk suddenly decided to change course and build SpaceX's Mars-bound spacecraft, Starship, out of stainless steel, rather than carbon fibre. Explaining the decision, he told Popular Mechanics: "The thing that’s counter-intuitive about the stainless steel is, it’s obviously cheap, it’s obviously fast — but it’s not obviously the lightest. But it is actually the lightest. If you look at the properties of a high-quality stainless steel, the thing that isn’t obvious is that at cryogenic temperatures, the strength is boosted by 50 percent. Most steels, as you get to cryogenic temperatures, they become very brittle. You’ve seen the trick with liquid nitrogen on typical carbon steel: You spray liquid nitrogen, you can hit it with a hammer, it shatters like glass. That’s true of most steels, but not of stainless steel that has a high chrome-nickel content."
www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a25953663/elon-musk-spacex-bfr-stainless-steel/

lyrics

We're feeling intergalactic
It's got to have that feel
We're going cryogenic
It's got to be stainless steel

We're feeling intergalactic
It's got to have that feel
We're going cryogenic
It's got to be stainless steel

We're feeling intergalactic
It's got to have that feel
We're going cryogenic
It's got to be stainless steel

We're feeling intergalactic
It's got to have that feel
We're going cryogenic
It's got to be stainless steel

We're feeling intergalactic
It's got to have that feel
We're going cryogenic
It's got to be stainless steel

We're going cryogenic
It's got to be stainless steel

We're going cryogenic
It's got to be stainless steel

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from Interplanetary Species, released January 29, 2021
Written, produced, arranged, mixed and mastered by Mat Ward.

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Mat Ward blends future bass, drum and bass, punk and politics to come up with a different sound. He has released albums about financial markets, Apple, Elon Musk, surveillance, the media, Mars, protest chants and the climate. He also writes books and a music column that has been shared by the likes of Ru Paul, Chuck D, Tom Morello and Al Jourgensen. ... more

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