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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