Timeline for How well would various forms of data storage survive in the vacuum of space?
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| Oct 20, 2023 at 17:00 | comment | added | JBH | I like this answer because there's a difference between what will happen to something that wasn't designed to float free in space and something that is designed to do so. Comparing (e.g.) a terrestrial thumb drive to the ISS is silly. The ISS was designed to be in space, the thumb drive wasn't. | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 8:35 | comment | added | Vesper | "A few K" is a high overestimation, as it takes quite a lot to cool down an object that deep with radiation only. Perhaps "100 K" would be a better estimation for a freely floating object in space, and should it rotate faster than 1/minute, even cooling to 250K would prove difficult. "Jettisoned out of an airlock" might also mean that there was some atmosphere in the airlock when it got open, this causes all sorts of rotation to whatever floats outside. | |
| Oct 20, 2023 at 8:13 | comment | added | AlexP | How many windows of the ISS have needed replacing after two decades in space? | |
| Oct 19, 2023 at 22:27 | history | answered | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |