#Computer errors 🐞 from #OuterSpace from a vote-counting machine that added thousands of non-existent votes to a candidate's tally, to a commercial #airliner ✈️ that suddenly dropped hundreds of feet mid-flight ⤵️, injuring dozens of passengers. A pacemaker's ❤️ built-in computer data got corrupted mid-flight. A group of researchers investigated more than 2,000 bit errors logged by a #satellite 🛰️ over roughly two years in #orbit. A huge number of the errors were clustered in an area called the South Atlantic Anomaly. According to #Nasa, #astronauts 👨🚀 on the #SpaceShuttle used to notice that their #laptops 💻 sometimes crashed when the space shuttle passed through the #SAAhttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221011-how-space-weather-causes-computer-errors
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