“We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home"

  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    I would certainly hope some kind of sealant would be used. It would be astounding to see it fully polished and shining in full sunlight.

    Probably wont happen in my lifetime though, or likely ever.

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      23 hours ago

      The issue is you need to recoat sealants every 10-15 years, you only need to chat oxide every 50 to 100 to access damage and most of the damage is on the internal iron structure that the dielectric force is slowly eating at a faster rate then the copper skin.

      There was a bunch of news about it around iirc 1980 when they cleaned sections to rebuild the inner scaffold in some areas.

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        22 hours ago

        I mean, isn’t that kind of symbolic though? France does regular maintenance on their democracy, we wait until it’s on the verge of irreparable corruption before we (hopefully) go in and fix it before it collapses

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          22 hours ago

          I mean maybe but we did that already out was the 1980s and they had to shut down and iirc permanently close the torch lookout.