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Yet for all its sheer matter—steel, glass, silver, aluminum, copper, ferroconcrete, silicon—the observatory seems to lift off into a mytho-poetic dimension.—Michael Jones McKean, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025 Since steel was scarce, the ship was built of ferroconcrete—a frame of metal mesh or steel-alloy rebar to which a concrete mixture was added in layers.—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2022
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