Tin in solder or some other meals can form spiky crystals when under stress. These whiskers can form short circuits if not properly insulated or not alloyed with other metals.
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Hey, tin whiskers! I haven't seen this happen in person since my Jerry rigged Celeron 333A killed itself. I'd created a monstrous homebrew cooler with raw bar stock aluminum as an IHS with a big fat peltier cooler and a huge heatsink so I could run the thing at 550mhz. The aluminum eventually grew a tin whisker after the machine had been running in my closet for a good 4 or so years and shorted the Celeron carrier board.
Apparently this was a pretty big problem in aerospace back in the early days, their electronics were particularly prone to this failure mode.
I'm not as tech minded as others on this platform. I think you said you were building a space ship in your closet that grew whiskers, and comitted suicide.
That seems like the kind of thing Disney would make an animated film about in the 60s. A child sized rocket thats grown depressed. So instead of flying to space with a kid inside, it instead goes into the closet for so long that it grows whiskers, and then ends it all.
It would be like that scene where bambis mom dies. It's ONLY there to traumatize kids, and punish parents who now have to deal with a crying kid.
Because Disney is evil.