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ECC doesn't help when you have an EMP caused by an atmospheric nuclear detonation. Those are the kinds of things the design has to consider.

• devonkim 7y ago
  Makes me why we don’t count NASA under DoD similar to DARPA to help with their funding.
  • mikeash 7y ago
    NASA exists to be the civilian side of the US’s aerospace ventures. The military side is the Air Force.
    • wolfgke 7y ago
      > NASA exists to be the civilian side of the US’s aerospace ventures. The military side is the Air Force. Not the Space Force? > https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/trump-space-force https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/trump-spac... ;-)
  • Kadin 7y ago
    The point of NASA was to create an agency for non-military aerospace development, while ARPA was supposed to handle military applications. I think Eisenhower thought that this would insulate NASA from postwar budget cuts and make its funding more secure rather than less. In retrospect, Eisenhower was a hell of an optimist.
  • 0xffff2 7y ago
    In addition to NASA's explicitly non-military nature, we do actually maintain some relationship with our USAF counterparts. When it makes sense to do so, we're happy to work on mutually beneficial projects.
• floatboth 7y ago
  But wouldn't that fuck up the processors as well as memory anyway?
  • NortySpock 7y ago
    In flight reboot
  • m463 7y ago
    Depends if the vacuum tubes are shielded. ;)