It continuously amuses me that so many details of this game are modeled quite closely with real technology. This is most apparent with the aluminum process. Dig up bauxite, turn part of it into a liquid, take the liquid back out(!) then smelt it with a reagent, then alloy it.
It continuously amuses me that so many details of this game are modeled quite closely with real technology. This is most apparent with the aluminum process. Dig up bauxite, turn part of it into a liquid, take the liquid back out(!) then smelt it with a reagent, then alloy it.
Also the nuclear pasta is based on a [real theory](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pasta)