From: Roddy9@verizon.net   
      
   Paul F. Dietz wrote:   
   > American wrote:   
   >   
   >> No, the storage mediums are too allergic to magnetic field disturbances   
   >> in the solar radiation field, as well as in the vicinity of Jupiter:   
   >   
   > Utter bullshit.  The magnetic fields in the interplanetary medium   
   > are much weaker than the magnetic field at the Earth's surface,   
   > let alone the magnetic field needed to affect a hard drive.   
   >   
   >     Paul   
   Yes but what you are forgetting is particles like neutrinos and gamma   
   rays. They would destroy magnetic disks. They go through everything,   
   even the astronauts see light flashes when they close their eyes from   
   bombardment of the inner eye by particles. Space is a nasty place.   
      
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