Re: Orbiting Datahavens
At 06:32 PM 8/17/96 -0500, snow wrote:
It is just as easy to take out a satelite in LOE as it is to sink an oil rig, plus swapping defective Hard Drives is a real bitch.
Hard drives don't work in a vacuum, at least conventional ones don't. (And I'm not aware of any hard drives which are designed to be permanently pressurized against a hard vacuum, either...) Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com
On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, jim bell wrote:
At 06:32 PM 8/17/96 -0500, snow wrote:
It is just as easy to take out a satelite in LOE as it is to sink an oil rig, plus swapping defective Hard Drives is a real bitch.
Hard drives don't work in a vacuum, at least conventional ones don't. (And I'm not aware of any hard drives which are designed to be permanently pressurized against a hard vacuum, either...)
I'll rephrase that then. It is a real bitch to swap out defective hardware on a satellite. I don't know much about sats, and I realize that most of them are built to specs that are insane compared to anything that runs dirtside, but (and I am sure that someone will correct me if I am wrong) most sats aren't expected to deal with the wide range of tasks that your average network server deals with, nor do they have anywhere NEAR the memory capacities that we are talking about. Petro, Christopher C. petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@smoke.suba.com
At 06:32 PM 8/17/96 -0500, snow wrote:
It is just as easy to take out a satelite in LOE as it is to sink an oil rig, plus swapping defective Hard Drives is a real bitch.
Hard drives don't work in a vacuum, at least conventional ones don't. (And I'm not aware of any hard drives which are designed to be permanently pressurized against a hard vacuum, either...)
Also, the corona effect is a real bear too. Hard drives wouldn't be able to have the little bit of air the heads float on, and contact at 3600/7200 rpm is not good for the drives. Then you get hard radiation that plays hob with the circutry. Even if nobody attacked the LOE satellite, there is always space debris.
Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com
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