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Tuna-Fish
on Oct 25, 2009
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Rare Photos of the Russian "Buran" space program
Actually, the computers used for mission-critical systems are very old. Generally to keep the electronics big enough that an alpha particle hitting the box does not give off enough energy to flip a bit and corrupt the program.
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