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Subject: Chasis not like a Faraday Cage for outside space

Author: Ratko V Tomic

Date: 18:43:53 02/01/03

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>You don't have to worry much about magnetic fields, if the computer components
>are incased in metal that stops the field, it's called a Faraday cage (it's for
>the same reason a car will protect you from lightning).

The Faraday cage protects inside the (metal) enclosed space,
not outside. A moving charge inside a metal cage easily produces
variable EM fields outside the cage.



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