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Old 02-August-2007, 11:21 AM
Jason Thompson Jason Thompson is offline
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Originally Posted by Interdimensional Warrior View Post
Jason, you fail to realize the enviroment you are refering to is quite different than the near vacuum of open space, and therefor totally irrelevant..
Not at all. You fail to realise that the electronics weren't all in the vacuum of open space, but were inside the cabin.

Electronic components generate a lot of heat, and that heat would have warmed the cabin of the spacecraft. Switch off the electronics and that heat source disappears. That really is elementary physics.

But the real question seems to be why an unpowered spacecraft in sunlight gets cold and not hot, in which case most of the discussion about heating and cooling in a powered up spacecraft seems a little beside the point.
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