[rescue] Slightly OT: Bad Cap Saga

[Jonathan Groll]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:30:38AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:45:38AM -0700, Luke Goembel wrote:
> > I build electronic devices that are 
> > meant for use in space. In a vacuum 
> > environment, electrolytic caps are 
> > not allowed because they leak/explode 
> > when in vacuum. I suspect they wouldn't 
> > be allowed because of their notoriously 
> > short lifetime even if they didn't 
> > explode in vacuum.
> 
> are you posting this, say, by chance,
> from something with a 40-column display
> like a commodore 64? 8-)
> 
Ah! The anti-Lionel!

-JJG