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:Sounds plausible to me. That's the way they cooled the [[SR-71 Blackbird]] back in the 60s… (From our article: {{tq|Cooling was carried out by cycling fuel behind the titanium surfaces in the chines. On landing, the canopy temperature was over 300 °C (572 °F).}}) — [[User:JFG|JFG]] <sup>[[User talk:JFG|talk]]</sup> 15:35, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
::That was titanium. I don't think ablation of stainless steel can be prevented by simply cooling its reverse side, while a hell of plasma is ablating and eroding its exposed face. But what do I know? I'll keep my eyes open. Cheers, [[User:Rowan Forest|Rowan Forest]] ([[User talk:Rowan Forest|talk]]) 19:53, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
:::The latest is that the Starship's skin is double-layered stainless-steel with water or cryo-methane (Musk has not decided) flowing in between as a coolant, and the underside has "pores" that literally allows the metallic skin to sweat its way down to the LZ. Waiting for other publications to echo that. [[User:Rowan Forest|Rowan Forest]] ([[User talk:Rowan Forest|talk]]) 00:03, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
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