{"id":389,"date":"2021-09-04T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T00:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/09\/04\/cosmic-rays-bit-flips-and-computer-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:04:35","slug":"cosmic-rays-bit-flips-and-computer-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/09\/04\/cosmic-rays-bit-flips-and-computer-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Rays, Bit Flips, and Computer Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AaZ_RSt0KP8?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Here is a very interesting video about a problem that many of us have been blissfully unaware. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>You can see the role played by the solar cycle. This is the subject of some on-going research by the folks who put out the <a href=\"http:\/\/SpaceWeather.com\">SpaceWeather.com<\/a> web site. They have been flying balloons to measure high altitude cosmic rays: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/cosmicrays_ca_trends2.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"621\" data-original-width=\"982\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/cosmicrays_ca_trends2.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b>I&#8217;ve been meaning to build a cloud chamber for a long time. I recently discovered that my local <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>supermarket sells dry ice&#8230; <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks to Dave, K8WPE for alerting us to this video. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a very interesting video about a problem that many of us have been blissfully unaware. You can see the role played by the solar cycle. This is the subject of some on-going research by the folks who put out the SpaceWeather.com web site. They have been flying balloons to measure high altitude cosmic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/09\/04\/cosmic-rays-bit-flips-and-computer-vulnerability\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cosmic Rays, Bit Flips, and Computer Vulnerability&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,27,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-balloon","category-propagation","category-solar-cycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}