On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 04:05:52PM -0800, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> The biggest problem you'll have is that hard disks will
> fail on Mars. The atmosphere is not thick enough to float
> the heads. You'll have to go back to paper tape and punch
> cards.
They barely work here! Hard drives do not like operating at 10,000' as
much as they do below 8,000' (and the dry air doesn't conduct heat away
from them very well... strangely enough, we have overheating problems
all over Antarctica, worse so at altitude).
-ethan
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