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The copter won't last very long on the Martian surface. It's using non-radiation protected hardware (which allows the software to be much more advanced that wha
by carlosdp 5y ago
The copter won't last very long on the Martian surface. It's using non-radiation protected hardware (which allows the software to be much more advanced that what we'd typically send to the planet).
- zarzavat 5y agoI'm curious what kind of permanent damage radiation causes to hardware? We hear about cosmic rays flipping bits in non-ECC RAM but that would generally be fixed by a reboot.
- throwawayboise 5y agoI guess maybe bits will get flipped in the saved program code and operating systems also? Thus rendering the device inoperable since there's no way to perform a reformat/reinstall