{"id":272,"date":"2007-10-16T22:56:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T02:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/272"},"modified":"2007-10-16T22:56:15","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T02:56:15","slug":"jumper-cables-for-the-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/jumper-cables-for-the-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumper Cables for the Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectrum.ieee.org\/print\/5598\">interesting article<\/a> about the problems in the space station a few months ago.\u00c2\u00a0 Key points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can&#8217;t count on a cable to heat itself if you put it by the dehumidifier.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s worse if the dehumidifier is balky.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a bad idea to have your three-way redundant power system depend on a single wire.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a good thing you have jumper cables to bypass the whole crappy deal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m doing my space station reading because it&#8217;s about to become the temporary home of my fraternity brother <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/shuttlemissions\/sts120\/index.html\">Dan Tani<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 He goes up on October 23rd and will stay through December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this interesting article about the problems in the space station a few months ago.\u00c2\u00a0 Key points: You can&#8217;t count on a cable to heat itself if you put it by the dehumidifier. It&#8217;s worse if the dehumidifier is balky. It&#8217;s a bad idea to have your three-way redundant power system depend on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mit","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}