Re:How to Download All of Wikipedia onto a USB Flash Drive
by autoexec on Thursday October 06, 2022 @10:21PM
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How much would the science capabilities of a telescope like JWST be reduced if we left its SSD alone and just taped a USB drive to the side of it somewhere that contained wikipieda?
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Re:How to Download All of Wikipedia onto a USB Flash Drive
by Rebelgecko on Friday October 07, 2022 @02:47PM
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Would duct tape pass the pre-launch vibe check? You'd have to do some engineering work to make sure it's sturdy, doesn't have any impact wrt oscillations, won't create FOD (debris) etc.
Once you've done all that work, I'm not sure what you've actually accomplished. By the time any sentient being gets around to visiting JWST, I wouldn't be surprised if an unshielded commercial drive would be rendered totally unusable by radiation.