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>Just think about computer chips. On any long voyage they'd break down so you need to be able to make new ones. Chips are small and light enough that you can b
by zeteo 15y ago
>Just think about computer chips. On any long voyage they'd break down so you need to be able to make new ones.
Chips are small and light enough that you can bring along a thousand times more chips than you need, at negligible additional cost. PCBs are a bit more trouble, but those are much easier to produce and recycle.
- JanezStupar 15y agoThey would still age. Were talking thousands of years here. In space, with all the radiation. In interstellar space.
- ceejayoz 15y agoSo you store them in the middle of your water tank. A hundred feet of water will block that radiation quite nicely.