Spaceflight 🚀<p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Computer</span></a> errors 🐞 from <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/OuterSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OuterSpace</span></a> from a vote-counting machine that added thousands of non-existent votes to a candidate's tally, to a commercial <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/airliner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>airliner</span></a> ✈️ that suddenly dropped hundreds of feet mid-flight ⤵️, injuring dozens of passengers. A pacemaker's ❤️ built-in computer data got corrupted mid-flight. A group of researchers investigated more than 2,000 bit errors logged by a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/satellite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>satellite</span></a> 🛰️ over roughly two years in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/orbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orbit</span></a>. A huge number of the errors were clustered in an area called the South Atlantic Anomaly. According to <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Nasa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nasa</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/astronauts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronauts</span></a> 👨🚀 on the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SpaceShuttle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceShuttle</span></a> used to notice that their <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/laptops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laptops</span></a> 💻 sometimes crashed when the space shuttle passed through the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SAA</span></a> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/future/article/2022101</span><span class="invisible">1-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SpaceWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceWeather</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/SolarStorm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarStorm</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CosmicRays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CosmicRays</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RadiationProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadiationProtection</span></a></p>