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		exe34 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt ... if the issue is radiation bit flipping, you could make that part overly shielded?

baq 4 months ago [–]

Define ‘overly’. You can submerge it in a sphere of water, but that’s going to be expensive to launch.

exe34 4 months ago | [–]

I suspect a couple millimeters of lead in the right place would do it. cheaper to shield the voting mechanism than the whole thing.

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