On a sunny day (Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:59:59 -0500) it happened Dennis Lee Bieber
wrote in :
>On Sat, 09 Jan 2021 08:23:38 GMT, Jan Panteltje
>declaimed the following:
>
>>I was more thinking along the lines where people board SpaceX flights to Mars
>>and bring the lightest possible personal computers with them: raspberries
>>High radiation levels...
>>Or astronauts in earth orbit, or high altitude flights...
>>Moonbase
>>
> Any device typically allowed on a space mission has to undergo
rigorous
>testing for all sorts of environmental situations... Both from the device
>(can't have it out-gassing corrosive vapors under reduced air pressure) and
>to the device (radiation hardening if it has any safety critical
>functions).
Indeed, I know, but have you seen the SpaceX pictures of their big spacecraft
traveling to mars
with passengers in it using their laptops?
I have commented on that in a youtube video long time ago.
Laptops would not last very long...
Neither would the Tesla car's electronics Musk sent to deep space...
OK he is selling, needs some salt....
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