> ... ECC and other failsafes don't catch 100 percent of these errors. So on a long enough time horizon with a large-enough, complex-enough system, these undete

> ... ECC and other failsafes don't catch 100 percent of these errors. So on a long enough time horizon with a large-enough, complex-enough system, these undetected, flipped bits will begin to accumulate. On a long-enough time horizon, the sun becomes a "red giant" and boils the oceans. No worries about bit flips after that.