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The 40+ Year-Old Polar Star
The whole ship is just obsolete. System by system, you can’t buy repair parts; everything has to be custom-made. And then the actual repairs are challenging too, as you can’t go through the hull, everything has to come in from the top down. It’s full of lead paint, asbestos, and PCBs, so just the environmental hazards that are still present on that ship make it very dif
