...might then have actually wiped out all life on earth. Then one of these comets that would have been populated with some of these "organic compounds" could have crash landed somewhere off in the deep ocean and those little critters found the warm waters quite nice and thrived.
I've seen several types of circuit boards similarly lathed in a resinous substance on later model cars. The substance was hard enough to prevent any real tampering of the board without potentially damaging the entire component.
I hadn't considered at the time that this was a thermal insulation method, but these boards (being under the hood of a vehicle) would be exposed to higher temperatures than the typical desktop or laptop system.
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...might then have actually wiped out all life on earth. Then one of these comets that would have been populated with some of these "organic compounds" could have crash landed somewhere off in the deep ocean and those little critters found the warm waters quite nice and thrived.
D'oh! We're all aliens after all :P
I've seen several types of circuit boards similarly lathed in a resinous substance on later model cars. The substance was hard enough to prevent any real tampering of the board without potentially damaging the entire component. I hadn't considered at the time that this was a thermal insulation method, but these boards (being under the hood of a vehicle) would be exposed to higher temperatures than the typical desktop or laptop system.