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Electronics tend to fail at dosages (20 greys or so) similar to what destroys your nervous system.
by PaulHoule 10mo ago
Electronics tend to fail at dosages (20 greys or so) similar to what destroys your nervous system.
- pinkmuffinere 10mo agoI'm a non-bio person. Is that a coincidence, or is that because of similarity between our nervous system and electronics?
- PaulHoule 10mo agoI think it's a good rule of thumb. When they send robots into something like the Fukushima site they don't last long. My first take is that I'm not surprised from a fermi problem standpoint that you can destroy two computers made from small parts smashed by radiation with a similar dose. But maybe that intuition is wrong because your brain could survive losing a few neurons but a microchip could be 0% functional after losing one transistor. My rule of thumb is about right for conventional chips but you can certainly get rad-hard chips that hold up better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening Space is a big market for that sort of thing.
- bsder 10mo ago> Is that a coincidence Mostly it's about penetration. Any radiation that can get through your skin can do damage. Once that happens, the question is then how much flux is there doing damage.