>
>
> Acceleration in a rocket might not affect the crystal too badly,
> even if timing was somewhat affected, but the decceleration
> when the rocket (or whatever the device is) lands might break it


It's more the jerk and the noise, than the gross acceleration, although
bending the internals into the can seems doable.

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