How do they cool computers in space where normal fans wouldn’t work?
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This is kind of an aside (looks like others have given you an answer more broadly) but fans are actually very important in space. For something like a computer, there’s no ‘up’ so warm air won’t rise on its own. It just sits where it is. The inside of a computer could get very hot, hitter then they would on earth, without a fan.
Likewise, astronauts have to sleep with a small fan, otherwise their exhaled co2 can build up near them in the less turbulent air.
If you watch videos from the space station it is very loud.
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