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Actually, there might be an unknown number of re-used steel that was formerly part of harpoons in space.
I read in a book[1] that some space-faring instrumentation is made from the salvaged metal of pre-WW2 German battleships, because the amount of radioactive contaminants in steel has been significantly increased since atmospheric nuclear weapons tests have started. So pre-WW2 steel creates less noise in the instruments.
Some harpoons could have made their way in via the battleship route.
[1] Not sure, either "Atomic" by Jim Baggott or "Atomic Awakening" by James Mahaffey
Comment by Shalmanese at 01/08/2014 at 21:55 UTC
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