To wit: Let's take a famously fragile example of high-style, high-maintenance engineering and park it outside on a pier in Manhattan. Listen up, sparky. I got a one-onethousandth scale model of those issues (it's even white), and it rusts if I just wave salt outside the garage door. If NASA wanted a shuttle to rot away in an inappropriate environment, they'd just park it outside the hangar for the alligators.