Twitter users spotted an interesting little piece of serving ware in a picture of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Indonesian president Joko Widodo having a chat.
an interesting piece of serving ware in a photo of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk with Indonesian president Joko Widodo having a chat — a Starship ceramic heat shield tile being used to hold snacks.
The two sat down to discuss everything from electric vehicles to interplanetary space travel. Indonesia happens to be the world's biggest producer of nickel, a crucial ingredient in the production of electric vehicle batteries, with MuskBut that's besides the point. What really stole the show was the sleek piece of equipment elegantly displaying a small stack of unidentifiable pastries on the table next to Musk and Widodo.
It's a quirky repurposing of a heat tile, designed to keep SpaceX's massive Starship from burning up upon re-entering the Earth's atmosphere, and perhaps even that of other planets, eventually.
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