9 Jan
2005
9 Jan
'05
7:45 p.m.
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, James R. Sissel wrote:
At 12:25 PM 1/9/2005 -0600, you wrote: Many years ago I had a family that bought a little electronic toy that had stopped working. They bought it on vacation and took it on the plane with them when they came home. Commercial airplanes fly 30,000-35,000 feet. The cabin is pressurized at 8,000 feet. When I opened the game I found one of the electrolytic capacitors had popped the can completely off.
I always thought it was cosmic and x-rays they were concerned about at high altitudes. Something about the charges activating the tiny static memory cells. But my laptop makes it through the xray scanner ok, so I don't know...
-=Duane http://dattaway.org