# Starlite Recipe Cracked?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starlite-recipe-cracked/826824>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 28, 2018, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starlite-recipe-cracked/826824 "2018-12-28T09:51:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starlite-recipe-cracked/826824/21 "2019-01-08T20:06:01Z")

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> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#):
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> If the Starlite material can withstand high temperatures but erodes very fast in a high velocity molecular impact environment, it is worthless as a thermal protection material for reentry environments.

Not to mention aerodynamic forces, acoustic loads and vibration during launch, or prolonged exposure to vacuum, or exposure to humidity & rain, etc, etc…

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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starlite-recipe-cracked/826824/22 "2019-01-09T09:19:19Z")

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> [@Pork\_Rind](#):
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> What kid screwing around with these ingredients also has unfettered access to a blow torch?

😕

Every kid I grew up with knew where their Pops torch was and how to use it.  
Corn starch, baking soda and glue are dangerous? Do some research on the science kits kids used to get. And then there was wood burning kits that were marketed to 8 year olds!

But okay, fine. Why did it take this long for anyone to figure this out with such available, rudimentary ingredients?

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starlite-recipe-cracked/826824/23 "2019-01-09T09:30:11Z")

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My Dad didn’t have a blowtorch. I know one Dad who used a blowtorch: at work, and if my classmate Santi had so much as looked at the acetylene tanks for too long, he would have been punted out of the store.

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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2019, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starlite-recipe-cracked/826824/24 "2019-01-09T10:49:00Z")

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> [@Nava](#):
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> I know one Dad who used a blowtorch

Did he have access to corn starch, baking soda and glue?

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