The first 77 viewers to sign up over at brilliant.org/scishow will get 20% off their annual premium subscription: https://brilliant.org/scishow
In the early 1980s IBM engineers had a hard time to to figure out inexplicable computer module failures in Denver, Colorado. When they finally cracked the puzzle, the cause turned out to be otherworldly.
Hosted by: Stefan Chin
———-
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow
———-
Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz
———-
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow
Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow
———-
Sources:
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/a-flash-then-we-plunged/story-e6freuy9-1111117691511
www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/the-untold-story-of-qf72-what-happens-when-psycho-automation-leaves-pilots-powerless-20170510-gw26ae.html
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1479948
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220497892_Field_testing_for_cosmic_ray_soft_errors_in_semiconductor_memories
https://www.eng.auburn.edu/~agrawvd/TALKS/tutorial_6pg.pdf
http://www.pld.ttu.ee/IAF0030/curtis.pdf
https://www.sciencemag.org/content/206/4420/776#aff-2
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.4.29
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118479308
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/how-to-kill-a-supercomputer-dirty-power-cosmic-rays-and-bad-solder
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-particles-outer-space-wreaking-low-grade.html
Interview with Bharat Bhuva
Image Source:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crshower2_nasa.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ram_chip.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_XP_BSOD.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/U.S._Department_of_Energy_-_Science_-_477_015_010_9737767578.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inside_Suite.jpg
:
Watch Now
