Veritasium video on the frequency of bit flips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8
"The Universe is Hostile to Computers"
At 17m53s: "On one five-day [Space Shuttle Mission] there were 161 separate bit flips."
Okay, maybe we *do* need ECC RAM.
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