When they turned off the case fan completely the HDD went up 9 dgrees to 38, which they said was quite high, or seomthing of the sort. then after installing some 3rd party cooling device and truning off the case fan the HDD was also up 9 degrees, but this time the temps are well within operating standards...
umm, what?
its the same damn temp minus the money for the magic '3rd party cooling device' unless the temps are wrong, they are saying two almost polar opposite things about same result...
For one thing, I know that the treadmill on the ISS has been broken almost all the time, everytime a shuttle/supply ship went up in 2002-2003 in carried parts for the treadmill.
This is straight from the Russian scientists mouths who helped design and service it, in a personal conversations (so not a press release where they are more diplomatic). Basically the new treadmill is too complex, it is motion damped. So since it has been broken, they are (or were, as this was in 2003 and I don't know about the status now) using the old treadmill that was designed for mir and has "never" broken.
So yes, overcomplexity, but unwarranted overcomplexity? - mostly leaning towards no. the vibration dampened treadmill was designed to address problems.
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When they turned off the case fan completely the HDD went up 9 dgrees to 38, which they said was quite high, or seomthing of the sort. then after installing some 3rd party cooling device and truning off the case fan the HDD was also up 9 degrees, but this time the temps are well within operating standards...
umm, what?
its the same damn temp minus the money for the magic '3rd party cooling device' unless the temps are wrong, they are saying two almost polar opposite things about same result...
For one thing, I know that the treadmill on the ISS has been broken almost all the time, everytime a shuttle/supply ship went up in 2002-2003 in carried parts for the treadmill.
This is straight from the Russian scientists mouths who helped design and service it, in a personal conversations (so not a press release where they are more diplomatic). Basically the new treadmill is too complex, it is motion damped. So since it has been broken, they are (or were, as this was in 2003 and I don't know about the status now) using the old treadmill that was designed for mir and has "never" broken.
So yes, overcomplexity, but unwarranted overcomplexity? - mostly leaning towards no. the vibration dampened treadmill was designed to address problems.
Well, i guess you could argue that we are descended from mice, in that we are their creation (to find the ultimate question)
PS Unless I'm one of the inferior parts of this computer and didn't see it, I'm surprised there was no D.Adams reference before.