I've been curious about what exactly Nasa does when they talk about making all of their equipment "radiation hardened". Just what kind of radiation does make a computer go flippy? I got a rock of Pitchblende (uranium ore) on Ebay that's reasonably hot, it makes my old civil defense geiger counter go off-scale at the x100 setting, even with the beta shield in the way, and I plopped that right smack on top of the memory banks of a computer running Memtest86, and no change.
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