seremtan wrote:MKJ wrote:
there isn't a dorkface big enough for this so the default should have to suffice*
*(it doesnt)
was thinking the same thing. a very very small thing whizzing through an unimaginably vast space. ffs Donald
Knows the ISS and atleast 1 of the shuttles have been damaged by space rocks, few satellites too. The chance of it happening is pretty remote but it happens
Another thing I've heard about is bit flips, where radiation storms will cause memory to change values. It's not rare but doesn't usually cause damage, if it happens in a critical system it could prove devastating though. Heard about a Jap satellite that killed itself after firing a booster, another shut down its antenna so it had no way of communicating with Earth, Curiosity suffered one on the way to mars that resulted in it losing one of its memory banks and halving its data storage. The Curiosity one almost made the mission a failure by trying to shut itself down n all, it was in its 'to do' list but thankfully someone noticed before it had a chance.
I think It's pretty remarkable that it's made it this far
Looks like Voyager got a bloody nose from one -
Memory dumps are available in both engineering formats. These routine diagnostic procedures have detected and corrected intermittent memory bit flip problems, as well as detecting the permanent bit flip problem that caused a two-week data loss event mid-2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program[color=red] . : [/color][size=85] You knows you knows [/size]
