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What could explain the gallium anomaly?

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Re: What could explain the gallium anomaly?

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Suffering yes -- to an extend that we here in the US have little understanding the depths of. But re: MAD, my point may have been the emperor's new clothes.

The depths of... so far.

This isn't the choice or will of the citizens, the government just uses fear of death to exercise control.

Re: What could explain the gallium anomaly?

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You can't get them all right. To be fair, they used pencils while NASA spent time and money to have a pen that writes in 0g.

This is a myth, using a pencil in space isn't clever or thrifty, it's a disaster waiting to happen. The graphite from pencils breaks off in small fragments while writing and the fragments can create shorts in electronics and to top it off they're also flammable. None of those are properties you want to bring into a spacecraft.

I wonder how graphite can create shorts, when all electronics board and components on them can be easily covered with protective nonconducting PCB varnish.
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