There is a piece of serving ware in the picture of Musk with the Indonesian president and it is a ceramic heat shield tile.
The two talked about everything from electric vehicles to space travel. Indonesia is the world's biggest producer of nickel, a crucial ingredient in the production of electric vehicle batteries, with Musk eyeing a potential investment.
That's not the point. The sleek piece of equipment that displayed a small stack of unidentifiable pastries on the table next to Musk and Widodo stole the show.
It's a weird way to keep the massive spaceship from burning up upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
Futurism reached out to SpaceX to confirm if it is a heat tile, but one of their engineers appeared to confirm that hypothesis.
By stacking the tiles closely together, the individual tiles form a high-tech suit of armor around the massive Mars-bound spaceship.
Musk showed off the tiles being heated using torches.
He commented at the time that white-hot parts reached a temp of around 1650 Kelvin.
That is about 2,500 degrees. Fortunately, the average pastry bakes at less than a fifth of that, meaning that even a tray of viennoiseries won't be able to crack this particular dish.
You could make a Pyrex casserole dish out of one of these bad boys and put it in the oven.
An innovative approach to problem solving that could not only bring about a new era in serving ware technologies, but also change the platter industry from the ground up has been shown by SpaceX.
The FAA just pushed back the test.
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