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> But all they found, at the capsule's bottom, was some silt, which the academics said they would sift through later.

Such an odd thing to call it "silt". Did they measure the grain size?

Anyhow, maybe whatever was in there had decomposed into a powder residue.



> Such an odd thing to call it "silt". Did they measure the grain size?

I mean, I doubt many people will appreciate or care whether it was actually sand or clay instead. The only reason I even know that you're talking about the soil texture triangle is because of Dwarf Fortress.




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