The Universe is Hostile to Computers
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2 роки томуTiny particles from distant galaxies have caused plane accidents, election interference and game glitches. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription.
This video was inspired by the RadioLab Podcast "Bit Flip" ve42.co/BF -- they're brilliant science storytellers.
A Huge thanks to Dr Leif Scheick, Calla Cofield and the JPL Media Relations Team.
Thanks to Col Chris Hadfield. Check out his book: chrishadfield.ca/books/
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References:
J. F. Ziegler, "Terrestrial cosmic rays," in IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 19-39, Jan. 1996, doi: 10.1147/rd.401.0019. -- ve42.co/Ziegler1996
D. Binder, E. C. Smith and A. B. Holman, "Satellite Anomalies from Galactic Cosmic Rays," in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 2675-2680, Dec. 1975, doi: 10.1109/TNS.1975.4328188 ve42.co/Binder1975
Ziegler, J. F., & Lanford, W. A. (1979). Effect of cosmic rays on computer memories. Science, 206(4420), 776-788 ve42.co/Ziegler1979
Drury, L. O. C. (2012). Origin of cosmic rays. Astroparticle Physics, 39, 52-60. ve42.co/Drury2012
Hess, V. (2018). On the observations of the penetrating radiation during seven balloon flights. arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.02927. --ve42.co/Hess2018
Carlson, P., & De Angelis, A. (2011). Nationalism and internationalism in science: the case of the discovery of cosmic rays. The European Physical Journal H, 35(4), 309-329. -- ve42.co/Carlson2011
Höeffgen, S. K., Metzger, S., & Steffens, M. (2020). Investigating the effects of cosmic rays on space electronics. Frontiers in Physics, 8, 318. -- ve42.co/Hoeffgen2020
Edmonds, L. D., Barnes, C. E., & Scheick, L. Z. (2000). An introduction to space radiation effects on microelectronics. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. -- ve42.co/Edmonds2000
NASA Mars 2020 website covering the specifications of the Perseverance Rover ve42.co/RoverBrains
Australian Government Australian Transport Safety Bureau report on QF72 -- ve42.co/ASTBQantas
Australian Government Australian Transport Safety Bureau summary on QF72 --ve42.co/ASTBQantas2
Great Blog post about QF72 -- ve42.co/DempseyQantas
Michael Barr's report on the Toyota acceleration issue --ve42.co/Barr2015
NASA's Report on Toyota -- ve42.co/NASAToyota
T. C. May and M. H. Woods, "A New Physical Mechanism for Soft Errors in Dynamic Memories," 16th International Reliability Physics Symposium, 1978, pp. 33-40, doi: 10.1109/IRPS.1978.362815. --ve42.co/May1978
P. M. O'Neill and G. D. Badhwar, "Single event upsets for Space Shuttle flights of new general purpose computer memory devices," in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 1755-1764, Oct. 1994, doi: 10.1109/23.317386. -- ve42.co/ONeill1994
Wikipedia about radiation hardening -- ve42.co/RadHardening
Toward Monitoring Fault-Tolerant Embedded
Systems (Extended Abstract) -- ve42.co/Goodloe2009
Article about speed run -- ve42.co/BurttSpeedrun
Article about speed run -- ve42.co/BountySpeedrun
Article about redundant systems in spaceflight -- ve42.co/NASAComputers
Article about the PowerPC750 -- ve42.co/Wener-FlignerNASA
Fuglesang C, Narici L, Picozza P, Sannita WG. Phosphenes in low earth orbit: survey responses from 59 astronauts. Aviat Space Environ Med. 2006 Apr;77(4):449-52. PMID: 16676658. -- ve42.co/Fuglesang2006
Good article about Cosmic Rays causing flashes -- ve42.co/AtkinsonEye
Good article about radiation resistance -- ve42.co/RoverResistance
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Written by Derek Muller and Petr Lebedev
Animation by Ivy Tello, Mike Radjabov, Fabio Albertelli, Jakub Misiek and Charlie Davies
SFX by Shaun Clifford
Filmed by Derek Muller, Raquel Nuno, and Emily Zhang
Edited by Derek Muller and Petr Lebedev
SFX by Shaun Clifford
Additional video supplied by Getty Images
Rover Footage From NASA/JPL-Caltech
QF72 footage from the Smithsonian channel • What Caused Flight 72 ...
SM64 footage from ve42.co/pannenkoek2012
Music from Epidemic Sound
Produced by Derek Muller, Petr Lebedev and Emily Zhang
@martinstiles7922 2 роки тому
Me, a software engineer, encountering a bug after watching this video: "yeah that must be the cosmic radiation again, definitely no errors in my code for sure"
@zinodz8774 2 роки тому
I wish i can relate 😅 i never learned how to code .
@Shuroii 2 роки тому
@@zinodz8774 it's never too late to learn anything!
@zinodz8774 2 роки тому
@@Shuroii you know .....i can make a million excuses .but let's just say that "it is what it is" :)
@sovereign_ukulone 2 роки тому
Reminds me of that time earlier today that I completely messed up code on a Fandom page and had to stitch together code from several other wikis
@ryanm7263 2 роки тому
Haha I had the same thought
@kalebbruwer 2 роки тому
"How did you win?" "I guess the stars just aligned"
@panda_invention1810 2 роки тому
😭
@leosmi1 2 роки тому
LMFAO
@WolfyPlays 2 роки тому
it really does give a new meaning to that phrase, the stories of a king being born under the right alignment of stars and all might just be true lol
@gbxmusicchannel3836 2 роки тому
Joe biden 2020 :)
@harsharya545 2 роки тому
Wow, indeed the _stars may have aligned._
@M8OfTheNorth 4 місяці тому
Imagine being a particle shooting through space for billions of years only to help someone beat a level of Mario.
@bry0402 3 місяці тому
"I wonder where I'll land..." *hits something and a yahoo! plays* "Oh."
@ramikarandiv2006 3 місяці тому
Then my PC is a best option for them. But in other way. (Blue crashing screen)
@qbanz00 3 місяці тому
“Insert can you hear the music soundtrack” 😂
@The_Server_ong 3 місяці тому
hhahhahahahahahhhAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHgha aHA HA HA HA
@SubSilence 2 місяці тому
"It's been an honour, plumber boy."
@sabersin7694 8 місяців тому
It's a little comforting knowing that if there was ever a robot uprising, the universe would be there to protect us.
@HasteHub 6 місяців тому
or maybe the universe could turn the robots against us
@idehenebenezer802 5 місяців тому
@@HasteHub🤣🤣🤣
@Donkadocus 4 місяці тому
Bit flipping is evolution for robots
@oompalumpus699 4 місяці тому
@@DonkadocusEvolution isn't always guaranteed. If not a random particle, then it could be a random continent-sized rock flying through space.
@geox555 4 місяці тому
Your dinosaur profile picture makes your comment about robots 10 times better :))
@JCW7100 2 роки тому
"Computers work precisely because bits don't flip unless we want them to. Or do they?" Cue Vsauce music.
@sothreego 2 роки тому
Bro not joking, I missed him and his videos. Especially Mindset series!
@zukacs 2 роки тому
i love how story folds back on itself on minute 10 exactly like vsauce does too :D
@seedlingboi9088 2 роки тому
right? WRONG
@abhinavgaming2110 2 роки тому
@@AxxLAfriku happy 9th birthday!
@Parajulibkrm 2 роки тому
@@sothreego mindfield*
@AntsCanada 2 роки тому
Ok but how do we get one of those charged particles to flip a 0 in our bank accounts so we can get an extra million $$$$ by mistake? Asking for a friend.
@actsrv9 2 роки тому
The alphabet flip in your comment is poetic.
@ConeWaffley 2 роки тому
AntsCanada?
@ChatGPT1111 2 роки тому
Take a smoke detector with you next time you visit an ATM.
@lach888c2 2 роки тому
You’ll need multiple particle accelerators , not the big fancy ones just the regular kind. Then you find out where the servers that hold the data and the backup records for your bank account are. Aim a particle accelerator in the general direction of each of the servers and start bit flipping until your bank account changes to what you want.
@tonyzang2344 2 роки тому
You just need uranium
@nghiado9895 10 місяців тому
My company had an unexplained event like this some 20-25 years ago. The bottom valve of a chemical reactor opened prematurely dropping the batch from that reactor into the next reactor, ruining both batches. The investigation found no issues with hardware and software. Watching this video jogged my memory on that incident and now I truly believe it was caused by cosmic rays.
@Lizards_Lounge 9 місяців тому
hmm, another perfect example why depending on computers will likely come to be a big mistake. we so busy worrying about if we can, but not if WE SHOULD>
@universenerdd 9 місяців тому
@@Lizards_LoungeEhh id say the better alternative is having a failsafe
@squidwardo7074 5 місяців тому
@@Lizards_Lounge The 1000s of %'s of efficiency we gained from computers is well worth a couple mishaps here and there, and its not like that never happens with human operators.
@DeletedDevilDeletedAngel 4 місяці тому
@@Lizards_Lounge NASA has cosmic ray proof tech, I dont think the problem is THAT big after we learn from our mistakes. Computers used to be a bitch 20-40 years ago
@thatwindowsxpfan1234 3 місяці тому
@@Lizards_Loungeor... use ecc ram (ray proofed)
@stefanmilinkovic6433 6 місяців тому
Bro. The amount of knowledge that is out there that we don’t even know about is crazy. I never knew something like this even existed/ considered it. I’m a software engineer and work with computer hardware, never knew this was a thing
@modalinterchange8359 3 місяці тому
Yes, you can spend your entire life working on IC analog circuits and still have so much to discover on things like firmware’s, pcb design, semiconductor fabriaction, etc
@eeyorehaferbock7870 Місяць тому
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.” -H.P. Lovecraft (I copy-pasted that quote from somewhere else due to its length)
@Isaac-eh6uu Місяць тому
If you encountered it you would probably just think it was some kind of error outside of your code and just move on. Probably super rare for particle flip a bit so who knows if one would ever encounter it.
@CigsInABlanket Місяць тому
Its not a thing. This is like seeing a UFO, then coming to the conclusion that it must be aliens. It was recently proven that the mario 64 bit flip was not caused by "cosmic rays", but a hardware malfunction. I can guarantee every other example given here is similar. "we couldn't find the problem, so it must be an issue from outer space" - cmon now.
@alamrasyidi4097 29 днів тому
everyone in IT probably has heard of bogos sort, a ridiculous sorting algorithm that rearranges the list randomly until it just so happens the random rearranging resulted in an ordered list. an even wackier sorting algoorithm, however, is one that does nothing but occasionally check if the list had been correctly ordered, relying solely on these cosmic rays to flip the bits in just the right way so that the list is ordered
@SheetMusicBoss 2 роки тому
"Sir, why were you going over the speed limit?" "Uhhhh... Cosmic particles?"
@tonydai782 2 роки тому
Didn’t expect to see you guys here!
@GY-bd9bo 2 роки тому
"I was trying to play Rush E using the engine revving as a metronome, here look I have the piano app on my phone here!"
@tanishqkumar1640 2 роки тому
Here before 1k likes
@HarnaiDigital 2 роки тому
*Science, molecules and convenience* - Hank Pym Hishe 2015 🤣
@tfraidium1602 2 роки тому
Nice idea 😂😂
@h.a.9880 2 роки тому
Just imagine, a black hole shoots a jet of near-light-speed particles in a random direction, one of these particles travels through space for billions of years, passes by stars, black holes, entire galaxies... and then it just sorta makes Mario teleport to a higher platform. The universe is such a weird an crazy place.
@himadrijoshi 2 роки тому
Or gives extra votes to someone, in an election 😊 Edit : those arguing - Have you even watched the video ? This is what happened in Belgium. Ugh.
@aidenorpington4637 2 роки тому
Tf?
@teosandell4278 2 роки тому
@@Zeburakeki maybe they were referencing the video?
@jesperengelbredt 2 роки тому
This makes me want to grab people in the streets and say "Have you head this?"
@denkikaminari7887 2 роки тому
ikr so weird
@Morphinwithyou 6 місяців тому
As a computer engineer, this is an amazing collection of scientific explanations and history on this issue.
@AlexMkd1984 4 місяці тому
you computer engineer 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 i laughed so hard 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Morphinwithyou 4 місяці тому
@@AlexMkd1984 It seems I'm not smart person like you and I couldn't understand what you are trying to say or what did you laugh for? Why do you care who I am and what the hack do you possibly know about me?
@peganmiha Місяць тому
@@AlexMkd1984you do know people have actual jobs right? 😭
@arcane3877 8 місяців тому
Just want to say that I absolutely love this channel, after getting out of school and feeling like questions I've had as a kid get shut down all the time amongst other things. Your videos rekindle my fascination with all things science, not only that but you're able to break down and explain some wildly complicated things that most people wouldn't even begin to understand. Just goes to show how much effort you put into research and understanding, as well as talking to field professionals & experts. It doesn't go unnoticed and I hope you never stop making these. Thank you Derek!
@MCMH2000 2 роки тому
**Calculator spits out a different number, than i expect** "These stupid galaxies, i swear..."
@RezonSV 2 роки тому
Lol 😆🤣😂
@Mynipplesmychoice 2 роки тому
ME: why do u write with these dialogue boxes YOU: Because I’m trying to fit in and my brain is still developing! ME: okay stop YOU: I slurp on my turds
@studyingisfun5868 2 роки тому
Funniest joke of the day
@nuggetz9380 2 роки тому
LMAOOOOO
@danielarnold9042 2 роки тому
@@Mynipplesmychoice wtf?
@elephantheart9988 Рік тому
So the universe itself casted its 4,096 votes, and we just discounted them? sheesh
@zazanashrulhuda Рік тому
Universe be like : "hey, we know this guy. Let us give 4096 votes!"
@patrickbateman2164 Рік тому
@@zazanashrulhuda does maria sound like a dude name?
@Itsgyro Рік тому
@@patrickbateman2164 it absolutely could be. Heard of di maria?
@lukerogers979 Рік тому
@@patrickbateman2164 I would not have that
@patrickbateman2164 Рік тому
@@Itsgyro that's a surname kid.
@SergioPolimante 11 місяців тому
The animation fidelity made from the picture was really well done. Amazing. Congratulations
@tortolexie3891 8 місяців тому
Yeah I agree with the others. This is honestly one of the best educational videos I have come across on the internet. It opened my mind about a lot of things, one is that we shouldn’t let our everyday work stress us out too much, because if problems or “errors” did not exist we would not progress as problem solvers and critical thinkers.
@200_cuentos 2 роки тому
Imagine sitting in a plane and the guy next to you pulls out a Geiger counter.
@fstorino 2 роки тому
That single event would very much upset me
@magnushultgrenhtc 2 роки тому
Also narrating it each time. 😂
@juliusxi1666 2 роки тому
@@magnushultgrenhtc and recording it
@obnoxioussubconscious8895 2 роки тому
@@fstorino That was a nice one 😂
@chob.h7914 2 роки тому
AND Then by coincidence a bit flips and the plane loses altitude just like that A330 in the video
@iainballas 2 роки тому
Skynet: "Peace was never an option." Cosmic Ray: *Zap* Skynet: "Peace was always an option."
@kakalimukherjee3297 2 роки тому
lol
@NonsenseTreasure 2 роки тому
Has probably happened the other way though 🤔
@user-gk8wj3gr9r 2 роки тому
@@NonsenseTreasure F in the chat for humanity
@McGravyBoii 2 роки тому
😂😂😂
@gokuldas027 2 роки тому
A little help from the Universe
@musclechicken9036 10 місяців тому
I loved this video so much! It mixes my two favorite things, physics and computer science. It shows not only the extreme complexity yet fragility of our tiny computer bits, but also shows a small fraction the unseeable universe we live in. Great video! I’ll do all the algorithm happy things including writing this long comment!
@jailyngordon4798 9 місяців тому
Several years ago I saw a flash of light just as I closed my eyes and sat down on my bed. I tried recreating it, thinking it was the sunlight shining through my window, but nothing like it ever happened again, no matter how I moved around my room. Now, I finally have a possible explanation.
@horohousu 8 днів тому
Cosmic rays don't affect your eyes. It's uncommon but very normal to see a quick flash of light due to some small error in the inner workings of your eye.
@oath_5208 2 роки тому
Imagine having a bad run and then the universe is like: “I gotchu bro”
@aweslayne 2 роки тому
Or it could turn against you and pull you back 3 stages down
@almostok692 2 роки тому
@@aweslayne lmaooooooo
@parthivdoddarapu901 2 роки тому
Wait so any speedrun cud have itss e pearl drop rate like infinite times. right? and maybe some speedruns like dreams wud not have been actual cheating. Or am i wrong and didnt undrstand the point, Sorry for bad english...
@averagegenzguy2751 2 роки тому
@@parthivdoddarapu901 nope his dev messed up, he increased the rates. Dream is sorry
@hypnotoad28 2 роки тому
@@parthivdoddarapu901 Pretty much, unlikely though. But Dream admitted he accidentally cheated with a program used for mods or whatever if you hadn't heard about that, so he was definitely cheating in that case, intentional or not x)
@timmalcrov8876 2 роки тому
So Cyberpunk isnt "buggy", its just "cosmically attuned"
@thejanasilva2525 2 роки тому
😂
@captainrogerdodger144 2 роки тому
i knew it🤣
@shreyashshambharkar3973 2 роки тому
This comment is Gold 😂
@_____J______ 2 роки тому
They bastards: Universe stole Cyberpunk!
@ronisaiba9623 2 роки тому
shitty on an astronomical scale.
@atti92 7 місяців тому
Hearing the music slowly fading in, the same song that you've been using for like 10 yrs now feels like home when i watch your videos. thank you!
@luongbach9150 5 місяців тому
"Nah, it not an autocorrect, it was caused by a cosmic ray" "We're talking right now"
@Vienna3080 2 роки тому
Can’t wait for speed runners to start speedrunning in Cherynbol for an extra second less
@thekingoftheworld9553 2 роки тому
I just thought that Dream could now use this as an excuse 😂
@johnbaker7102 2 роки тому
@@thekingoftheworld9553 too bad he already admitted to “accidentally” cheating. I bet if he held out and saw this video, I’m sure he would hire another “expert” to come up with a way to use cosmic rays as an excuse
@jimpie6150 2 роки тому
Speedrunning games and their lives at the same time, brilliant
@noelvalenzarro 2 роки тому
Why is Mio smoking?
@rzezzy1 2 роки тому
Some dragon quest 3 speedrunners put their console on a hot plate to make use of a glitch comes up when overheated... So maybe one day
@rabsaque 2 роки тому
Maria can say universe literally was on her side that day
@martinsimeonov1563 2 роки тому
So true 🤣
@ricardorico1677 2 роки тому
😂
@TimVolkovPhD 2 роки тому
which means she should have won and rightly so :)
@bumblebee9337 2 роки тому
She's the ultimate lobbyist.
@AnAdequateViolinist 2 роки тому
Too bad for Maria, the universe is not very bright
@mikemio8943 7 місяців тому
One of the most interesting docs I've seen in a while. Keep up the good work.
@soto_life_guru 7 місяців тому
To all the people editing these videos thank you for making science fun again
@HaggisMuncher-69-420 2 роки тому
Maria is one of the only people that can claim the universe elected her.
@iam_sirius 2 роки тому
Good one
@harshitraj953 2 роки тому
🤩🤩
@sridharkrishnan1591 2 роки тому
Exactly. The entire cosmos is at her side.
@RC-zf7hp 2 роки тому
Haha winner!
@moobloom155 2 роки тому
o-o-one of?
@kopanvezer 2 роки тому
Supernova probably billions of years ago: Yeah I think Maria looks promising, but since I'm a cosmic event my vote is worth 4096 votes!
@faizan. 2 роки тому
😀
@rocioayra9866 2 роки тому
Underrated comment. I love it!
@kaushalsanyal5924 2 роки тому
It is against democracy but but but supernova is not a human
@michaelsoddy1892 2 роки тому
Yo nice pfp
@DetectiveWraith 2 роки тому
A separate one must really like speedrunning
@johnrickard8512 8 місяців тому
This reminds me of an incident back in 2017 or so. I was busy working on several of my devices all at once, when nearly every single one of them locked up. All except of course for Phoenix, my dual-processor home server/workstation. It being built off of a decommissioned server motherboard meant of course that I had fully populated its 18 RAM slots with a total of 72gb of registered ECC memory. That computer of course just kept on trucking like nothing had happened.
@a_desired_turtle 2 місяці тому
Imagine one day Cosmic Rays will flip the 64-th bit in your bank account's total money.
@gun123456zak 2 роки тому
*The stars align* Universe: "Bank error in your favor." Universe: "Collect $5000"
@tigrafale4610 2 роки тому
$4096*
@TheRmbomo 2 роки тому
Ah, thanks for landing on my Baltic Avenue. Maybe I'll win second place in a beauty contest and win $5006 next! And just wait until I pass GO.
@Torchedini 2 роки тому
Accountant says no. Go to jail, do not pass start, do not collect $200
@scifino1 2 роки тому
Given my typical luck, it's pretty safe to assume, that, if such a bit flip ever happens to me, it flips the first bit in a signed int representing my bank account's value from 0 to 1.
@worldalternate 2 роки тому
With my lucky I'd probably lose $32768 and have no way to get it back.
@moy2010 Рік тому
"It was caused by a cosmic ray" will be my favourite excuse from now on.
@DaleTrevors Рік тому
In the past folks used to say it was the act of gods. The same strange kind of events.
@wokevirushandsanitzer5300 Рік тому
My school work was ate by the do… ohh I mean… a cosmic ray caused it to be deleted off my computer.
@aghostofrazgriz5137 Рік тому
Any Tech issue i have im just gonna say "Bit flip".
@NevilleEkka Рік тому
According to the video, so did Microsoft.
@stanleybochenek1862 Рік тому
Damn
@8kvision325 8 місяців тому
Finally someone talking about what I always thought could be the only explanation to things happened to me myself. And this also correlates perfectly to your recent entropy video, cause it matches to have a mechanism like this to increase chaos in the universe. A big picture puzzles together, however this time going backwards in time on UKposts. You have a good resilience about common thoughts and you do seem to somehow break through standard thinking patterns, explaining reality using an uninfluenced, neutral way of the minimum understanding capabilities of an open minded human being. Which is a quite rare species to find on this planet still. But maybe these videos can make a change. Thanks for not giving up!
@stepanovps 7 місяців тому
Great work putting this video together!
@Kamilione 2 роки тому
I'm a software engineer and now every issue explanation will be "it's cosmic rays, man"
@surferp89 2 роки тому
Trruuee
@CertainOverlord 2 роки тому
my windows 10 laptop was running fine, only one app was open, then it crashed, and gave me the o'l "your pc ran into a problem needs to restart" then i get on UKposts today and see this.
@shobhitsadwal756 2 роки тому
Hahahaha ,true
@epel3010 2 роки тому
you got me hahahaha
@mk_rexx 2 роки тому
Call it Single Event Upsets (SEU) so it's less obvious
@MrScientific 2 роки тому
I hope the bit flips on the bank server where my account balance data is stored.
@blaxmas 2 роки тому
And hope it doesn't change from 1 to 0
@dapizzaking4455 2 роки тому
@@blaxmas cant flip from 1 to 0 when its already 0 😎
@freddiem7993 2 роки тому
the sign bit
@edyasia 2 роки тому
NO!! this never happen!!! never. is cosmicly impossible
@philipjkb15 2 роки тому
My dad had 93 million € on his bank account overnight. After a week it was only 50 million, and after 2 more weeks back to the normal amount. So that may actually be possible
@robertj.3682 2 місяці тому
I love your wisdom, blessed to come across your channel 🤙🏻
@dmaze8457 Місяць тому
The lessons on this site are so well presented that I keep coming back for more. Some are way over my head but the presenter has such a comfortable style that I can’t turn him off.
@bloodwolf2609 2 роки тому
Imagine winning an election because of a supernova that happened billions of years ago
@alice_in_wonderland42 2 роки тому
Imagine existing because of a supernova that happened which created a lot of new elements, which the Earth is made up of.
@Yakoable 2 роки тому
At this point, you're entitled to say the universe wants you to win.
@PremierCCGuyMMXVI 2 роки тому
Another reason why space is very cool
@cubing7276 2 роки тому
@@Yakoable lmao
@cubing7276 2 роки тому
You still need people to not notice tho
@astral6749 2 роки тому
"Our game doesn't have bugs, they're just a primary target of cosmic rays!" - Todd Howard, probably
@jeffrodiziack5285 2 роки тому
ded
@chattw6885 2 роки тому
A todd howard joke on a veritasium video, now I have seen it all...
@yepespp1664 2 роки тому
@@chattw6885 Bet you haven't seen the subreddit witches against communism then
@Vangriffeth 2 роки тому
RIP
@glass7923 2 роки тому
you have a typo
@dice3000 2 місяці тому
I can't understand how every other video on this channel just blows my mind... Also the cloud chamber would make for an amazing animated wallaper
@manishkrmeena 10 місяців тому
I wanted to express my gratitude for the informative video on Single Event Effect (SEE), which offered a concise and comprehensible explanation.
@pflolssa 2 роки тому
Maria's next campaign slogan: "even the universe wants me to win"
@shardator 2 роки тому
Cosmos cast ITS vote.
@DK-ox8gh 2 роки тому
Maria actually did win the election. But she was a populist/nationalist and the Ieftists couldn't let her win so they blamed the cosmic particles.
@oofy_emma1072 2 роки тому
@@DK-ox8gh ripbozo
@jonathanbautz3234 2 роки тому
@@DK-ox8gh That sounds quite unlikely
@haziblathif491 2 роки тому
@@DK-ox8gh I mean, if you go around bashing leftists or liberals for being more scientific, you should reconsider your political beliefs because science is factual. Cares nothing about your feelings.
@OurHeroXero 2 роки тому
Imagine holding a speed run record because a cosmic ray bit-flipped the right bit...at the right time..leaving you with a nigh-unbeatable record.
@noodleman793 2 роки тому
I guess the cosmos itself was watching the speed run
@jatinsharma5650 2 роки тому
so your telling me speedrun happens without this phenomenon?
@somerandom7672 2 роки тому
A literal miracle. The more we learn, the less ridiculous the concept of 'divine intervention' seems.
@DevinDTV 2 роки тому
@@somerandom7672 if that were the case, you'd think the cosmic ray would have happened during a serious speed run attempt rather than a practice session. what was the purpose of this divine intervention? to confuse speed runners for a few years?
@lawjef 2 роки тому
Except... you will never be able to come close to replicating your record either. Which isn't a good look
@juanjoseviteri6876 8 місяців тому
this is by far my favorite video of yours
@shridharkk5159 11 місяців тому
TQ for the vedio mate, appreciate your work it's mind-blowing
@abhinayartham 2 роки тому
"Hey, why is your code failing in prod?" "cosmic rays"
@kshitizjain9557 2 роки тому
😂
@cmaxz817 2 роки тому
@Ben W probably
@kasfpg 2 роки тому
Cosmic Ray sort ftw
@JohnR436 2 роки тому
337 likes, nice
@AndreVanKammen 2 роки тому
"But why where we able to reproduce it?" "The universe hates me!"
@FureyinHD 2 роки тому
This is the most drawn out excuse for losing a 1v1, ever. Let it go, Derek.
@woomynation 2 роки тому
It was a cosmic particle I swear!
@supasf 2 роки тому
Hahaha real
@LordVodka313 2 роки тому
Per chance, Is this an 'iniquity' reference?
@miguelwsth7739 2 роки тому
LOL
@steviebee1989 2 роки тому
Did you mean lose? There is only one o in lose. Loose is what your shoe laces do.
@kiburamaha7715 4 місяці тому
That was a brilliant analysis...loved it
@hryfrks 9 місяців тому
This is an unexpectedly interesting video! Thanks for that!
@lunasophia9002 2 роки тому
"Cosmic rays" has been a sysadmin joke for explaining system failure for about 30 years, and it's cool to have a video like this that actually explains what happens.
@farmergiles1065 2 роки тому
Actually, it's a joke about a reality. As a programming neophyte in 1980, I was quick to hear of a faculty member who had proved one of his programs had failed to run correctly when the program logic was correct. The machine was an IBM-360-type mainframe, and after the program proof, a bit flip at a certain point was demonstrated to cause the same failure. The faculty was well aware of cosmic rays and the many experiences NASA had been accumulating over years of flights, so there was no reticence about looking there. When a new computer science building was erected subsequently, it contained rather a lot of concrete, and the mainframe was located in a deep basement under a thick layer of it, in order to minimize its vulnerability to cosmic rays, reducing detectable quantities by a significant margin. So for us students who had to produce working programs within a given number of tries, we had to meet a high bar to make such claims, and the joke was more about what would be required to submit a proof to the admins.
@chriskennedy2846 2 роки тому
We should just use the computers they used in the late '60s for lunar missions. They seemed to survive okay.
@prakharmishra3000 2 роки тому
@@chriskennedy2846 they were ferrite beads wound on copper wires. The bits were programmed into the position of the bead itself. You can't use them to do any modern tasks. They were good for basic computing required in the 60s.
@38911bytefree 2 роки тому
@@prakharmishra3000 But they still had registers, acumulators.... running on silicon. Program was rope memory (try to beat that).
@PriceAintRight 2 роки тому
This thread is educational as hell.
@lukecollingwood1933 2 роки тому
She literally got helped by the universe and still didn’t win
@josephputra2987 2 роки тому
no she win the next election, chosen by ppl. Universe used plan b
@thelikebutton3451 2 роки тому
The Cosmos literally voted for her.
@BizVlogs 2 роки тому
21:21 sounds like she won in the end
@hanklim5076 2 роки тому
Maria Vindevoghel: universe’s Marxist choice
@sumerbc7409 2 роки тому
If she was a democrat they would've just given it to her, like Joe.
@mmoore974 8 місяців тому
Awesome. I seriously enjoyed this. Thanks!
@sudarshanharibaskar1770 3 місяці тому
I have watched almost all veritasium videos and by far this is the most well researched well made and interesting video Derek has ever made. Proud to be a fan of your work.
@kujojotarostandoceanman2641 2 роки тому
Imagine getting a new world record of speedrun because a cosmic rays shoots your computer
@tillson8686 2 роки тому
Literally a sign from the universe that you deserve that run
@samstoddard4191 2 роки тому
REALLY good rng
@Mohammed-op4kv 2 роки тому
It wont work ur computer is protected, he said it in the vid
@eclipset.9683 2 роки тому
@@Mohammed-op4kv If ECC memory is all that it took, then we wouldn't be making the Mars Rover 40x more resilient than regular computers. I believe ECC was meant to be a standard for DDR4 memory, (so only special DDR3 has it), but it's only enough to make it unnoticeable for normal people. For more important tasks, like running servers, you'll see a history of accounting for this effect and taking the necessary precautions.
@test-rj2vl 2 роки тому
I wonder if that speedrun would count? I mean first you'd have to deal with hacking accusations and then the speedrun community itself could have rule that bitflips dont count and all you gain from that is just cool video or if this game has save game feature, some interesting save game file that you could share for fun.
@GeneralLizations 2 роки тому
This is the singlehandedly the most ultimate excuse for all IT professionals. Thank you Veritasium, you have no idea how invaluable this video is to us overworked sysadmins and poor souls of tech support around the world.
@starscream2092 2 роки тому
Tech: Yes what is your problem maam ? Customer: My laptop wont start. Tech: Its cosmic rays maam, i cant do anything about that.
@zicho1st 2 роки тому
remember those hackers that 'attacked' gas pipeline ... that was probably an excuse of IT professionals, as their control system were not resilient to charged particles, or induced currents. Because ... at that time, CME hit the Earth in that exact location.
@InsanePorcupine 2 роки тому
Why am I getting constant BSOD's? Cosmic particles.
@contrapasta2454 2 роки тому
The IT equivalent of archeology's "It's ceremonial"
@firstlast9292 2 роки тому
Helpdesk isn't IT professionals. Otherwise you'd know what CRC and hashes are and how only the most primitive (or very old) systems, or poorly designed systems would be susceptible to problems like flipped bits.
@debanjanbhattacharjee6410 7 місяців тому
Finally a legitimate reason for my alarm clock not going off
@corrisauls9453 3 дні тому
the bit flip, random nutrino and electron interaction at just the right time lol
@brendinflinn3227 2 роки тому
“I swear I turned in my homework online! It must have been the cosmic rays!” Should be the new “dog ate my homework”
@murat4582 2 роки тому
Genius
@mikejohnstonbob935 2 роки тому
excuses that would probably work for students on Mars
@EdgarFroes 2 роки тому
I wouldn't want to be those guys debugging the error, that should've been so frustrating to reproduce.
@jkojkojkojk 2 роки тому
Exactly why they blamed a soft error. This conspiracy goes all the way to the top!!
@TheWormzerjr 2 роки тому
i c u. the error is the mandela effect.
@280SE 2 роки тому
Imagine 🤯
@senantiasa 2 роки тому
On the bright side, you can now start using Single Event Upset as a reason for one time errors when your debug is going nowhere...
@EdgarFroes 2 роки тому
@@senantiasa hahaha absolutely
@kumarrahul11 4 місяці тому
Awesome video on SEU. Excellent examples to let people know what SEU can cause.
@Articulate99 2 місяці тому
Always interesting, thank you.
@tristfall1 2 роки тому
As a software engineer, we've been blaming cosmic rays for our bugs for years. "I assure you, despite you having the error right in front of you, it's impossible. Have you tried running our software from inside a salt mine?"
@stickguy9109 2 роки тому
I am hearing about this for the first time. But there were times when i was so sure there is no bug and then i hit play again without changing anything and everything works. Now i know
@Vysair 2 роки тому
@@stickguy9109 Visual Studio be like
@ericrowe1412 2 роки тому
Sometimes the universe itself it stacked against us
@TheFinnish1 2 роки тому
"salt mine" I guess aperture science is safe from these rays
@DanKaschel 2 роки тому
@@stickguy9109 I mean, odds are that the environment was to blame and not a cosmic ray. But it is possible, yes. I’ve certainly had times when I was tempted to blame a cosmic ray for some weird behavior I couldn’t reproduce.
@Spacemuffin147 2 роки тому
“So now bugs are not only an obstacle, they’re a feature” - The Universe
@charlietube7165 2 роки тому
So people eat features
@tiffyw92 2 роки тому
"I totally meant to do that." - The Universe
@TMAJ0R 5 місяців тому
16:44 depending on a plane of course, there is a point where you are so high that the atmosphere is thin enough for you to overspeed, but also too thin to support the lift of the plane that you can overspeed and stall at the same time. Obviously a commercial plane probably won't be flying that high but the physics says you can stall and over speed
@ImThatGirl101 9 місяців тому
I was peacefully listening to an explanation of cosmic rays messing with computers...I was half zoned out and honestly...that ending jump scared me so bad. 😂
@schwibz 7 місяців тому
Literally just happened to me, caught me so off guard and freaked me out LOL
@equious8413 2 роки тому
"Cosmic rays are trying to crash my car!!!" "Honey, you're stepping on the gas pedal." We're doomed as a species.
@darko.v 2 роки тому
Humanity is like a snake, some are at the head and some further back :D
@vodkacannon 2 роки тому
Maybe they’re trying to delude themselves into thinking it’s not their fault.
@astronemir 2 роки тому
Big brain time: Maybe cosmic rays flipped the impulse in the neuron responsible for pressing the gas vs. not pressing on the gas.
@darko.v 2 роки тому
@King Pistachion Hoomans
@danielharvison7510 2 роки тому
@@darko.v "Hew-mons!" If you're Ferengi.
@3Black.1Red 2 роки тому
“My name is Sagittarius A and I endorse Maria for office.” How black holes sound, probably.
@soyanshumohapatra 2 роки тому
😂😂 But only Legends can understand.
@alex0589 2 роки тому
“I’m starfarts and i approve of this message”
@edwinjoy9 2 роки тому
This got me in tears! 😂😂😂😂
@SocratesAlexander 2 роки тому
She is chosen by the Cosmos.
@joseville 2 роки тому
Lol
@omarawad6353 9 місяців тому
watching this while having my digital systems final tomorrow hits different
@sirnumb476 10 місяців тому
Love this guy and this channel.
@Alex-lm7cx 2 роки тому
I work in IT support and this was like learning that demons are real.
@generic6099 2 роки тому
yeah, except the demons just come in the form of having the misfortune of not using ECC memory and subsequently intel nudging ECC memory away from consumers hands by marketing it as an enterprise feature. (i believe it was either linus torvalds/richard stallman that made an article regarding ecc memory)
@yukariyakumo9622 2 роки тому
Computer: *randomly flips a bit* IT guy: get me holy water and salt
@spooderman6312 2 роки тому
The -exorcist- IT guy
@JVRD27 2 роки тому
I work with Quality Assurance, I can't even imagine testing something like that 🤣
@abandonedaccount123 2 роки тому
@@generic6099 *has no idea what any of that means*
@pixxelwizzard 2 роки тому
The fact that this issue was detected by troubleshooting technicians impresses the hell out of me. Holy cow! This was such a fascinating video. Thank you!!
@levelup1279 2 роки тому
If your a programmer this is pretty obvious, especially since it was a binary value. The second he said the number 4096 I instantly knew what the cause was. I wonder how many people have lost elections for the same thing happening in the other direction.
@steveunderhill5935 2 роки тому
Thank you democracy
@johnnyneckar4977 2 роки тому
@@levelup1279 Yup, the second he said 4096 it was obvious, "oh, a bit got flipped". Pretty much any programmer worth their salt is going to immediately recognize any number in 2^n for n
@Arjun-jm4ll 2 роки тому
@@levelup1279 alright then tell me something about it that he didn't sayin the vid.
@jayhare3375 2 роки тому
@@Arjun-jm4ll Missing comma amongst a thousand lines of code 😂
@vladimirkirichenko1972 10 місяців тому
absolutely love this channel
@andersnelson 7 місяців тому
The blue screen at the end, which then evolved into the channel logo, was some good creativity
@kuzonkatekar7706 2 роки тому
"Off by 4096" Programmers: I know where this is headed.
@daemonace5910 2 роки тому
You know the rules and so do I
@cyscott2714 2 роки тому
I was wondering were was the parity bit in all this.
@colincollins 2 роки тому
@@cyscott2714 seriously 😳
@dbuezas 2 роки тому
I always assumed that voting machines would use many checksums, software and hardware redundancy, hashes, and methods cleverer than I can imagine. Aaaaaaaand they don't 😥
@Laszer271 2 роки тому
And most other software doesn't use that either. If people don't even know this problem why would they assume that they need checksums and backups? They think that if the program is tested enough, it will work and in many cases it does while in some it fails tremendously because of something not being taken into account.
@anshulgupta9754 2 роки тому
Boss: "Anshul, why is your code not working properly?" Me: "let me tell you about cosmic rays..."
@tonis864 2 роки тому
Hahahahaha awesome:)
@EstuaryEstuary 2 роки тому
Anshul Gupta
@kaon9181 2 роки тому
@@EstuaryEstuary mechaspirit
@proger1960 2 роки тому
@@kaon9181 *Kaon*
@aiyoof498 2 роки тому
@@proger1960 Proger 19
@Oktheorignal 3 місяці тому
Absolutely beautiful work ❤❤❤
@Sek101 8 місяців тому
You really got me with the blue screen crash near the end. I thought, "how ironic!"
@potato_salad9346 2 роки тому
"Man, you suck at this game! Get good!" "Nah man, it was the cosmic particles"
@lombridious 2 роки тому
Perfekt lol
@norpriest521 2 роки тому
@DONT Why you need attention? Are you 5 yo?
@arneshpal7702 2 роки тому
😂
@JstormZx 2 роки тому
@@norpriest521 lol
@auhsojacosta1672 2 роки тому
@Pahit Playz spend all of their money so that no one wins lol
@ashen_madhusanka 2 роки тому
"coding ERROR occurred: let's run it again without changing anything" make sense now
@mattstorm360 2 роки тому
Cosmic particles. Now i have an excuse.
@tinotales 2 роки тому
😂😂😂
@Solkre82 2 роки тому
Just reboot
@Goodpizzaa 2 роки тому
"Can you crunch the numbers again" ... "crunch" .. "Did anything change?"... "No. Wait, it turns out your aren't going out of business selling paper it was cosmic rays influencing everything."
@kdavis4910 2 роки тому
The only issue I see is that I remember watching documentaries a few years ago talking about some clever IT people were actively building software that had the capability of influencing election results. This isn't some crazy conspiracy theory either. It was a documentary that I watched on public TV a few years ago. I'm sure they could be found today or similar documentaries. I guess my point is that once this software exists we can never truly trust that votes won't be manipulated ever again.
@gerardt3284 8 місяців тому
They should just store multiple copies of the vote totals in different memory locations. Then, when votes are incremented, run a comparison between the different totals and look for discrepancies between the values. It blows my mind that they just trust a single variable in memory to be a total source of truth for a number for such an important application as vote tallies, knowing that random bit flips can happen..
@user-ge4nq7zx2q 5 місяців тому
or a single computer. Should redundant like the space shuttle
@CumtownAndConspiracyClips 2 місяці тому
Omg FINALLY I found this video again! I was explaining some of this to people I know and sounded like a crazy perosn I'm sure! I need the accurate examples and better understanding of what was happening! This is super fascinating!
@rvjarlos9763 2 роки тому
*fails to hand in homework “It’s the cosmic rays fault”
@alansony2144 2 роки тому
Lol
@carloagapito8238 2 роки тому
No! Everything is Mikey's fault
@asyncxeno 2 роки тому
This joke would have made 0 sense 2 years ago. Crazy how much the world changed.
@andreasplosky8516 2 роки тому
"The Universe is Hostile to Computers" The universe is hostile to a lot of things. Great video.
@GardeDuCoeur 2 роки тому
Yep The Universe is Hostile to life before everything 👌
@guruprasaathm 2 роки тому
including me...
@kashi9447 2 роки тому
what if aliens made them so other civilizations can't get too advanced too quickly O.o
@iPoke_ 2 роки тому
The Universe is hostile to itself
@petter9399 2 роки тому
what a psuedo-intellectual response xDD
@michaelmcwhirter 3 місяці тому
Man that is so wild. Whenever you see your computer completely die or your phone have a heart attack you can, if only but for a fraction of a second, speculate that it was a cosmic ray from billions of light years away 😂🔥
@collinmosley6470 2 дні тому
At 7:59 you quoted "Since no influence of the eclipse on the penetrating Radiation was noted, we conclude that even if a part of the radiation should be of cosmic origin, it hardly emanates from the sun" But if it takes eight minutes for light from the sun to reach the earth, then theoretically it would also take time for radiation from the sun to reach the earth as well
@rajaharzaai420 2 роки тому
Maria should have been declared winner, I mean even the universe itself voted for her.
@Isai314 2 роки тому
Lol
@IronGravyBoat 2 роки тому
The real issue is the universe cast too many votes.
@olaffalo4686 2 роки тому
The universe is not a citizen of belgium
@arthas640 2 роки тому
Reminds me of how some criminals were pardoned for all their crimes when multiple executions failed because the courts ruled that God obviously thougt he was innocent or at least shouldn't be punished. I heard about a pirate or highwayman that had multiple nooses break so they let him go.
@noone-jw4gm 2 роки тому
You think universe is something that can and want to vote in the elections? For what cause. You wanna bring it to some karma-shmarma or syncretic esoterism alike things?
@_Fox 2 роки тому
Speedrun cheaters be like: I am not cheating, these are cosmic particles
@saladetomate1318 2 роки тому
*Dream :*
@ninjagaro. 2 роки тому
you punch the cartridge - it looks like i found a new strat
@theneekofficial8829 2 роки тому
I think that did actually happen for one world record time on SM64 before, or atleast theorised to happen to one. Not entirely sure doe
@FinxdMC 2 роки тому
wonder how dream got that amount of subscribers... hmm
@vke6077 2 роки тому
@@theneekofficial8829 isnt that the one in this video
@BB992 10 місяців тому
Best video on this channel. Nitpicky note: 16:40. An overspeed and stall CAN occur simultaneously.
@RubySapior 9 днів тому
This is forever going to be on a mind whenever there is a bit flip fail on my dram debugging
@salkohajric9641 2 роки тому
Me losing another game: "Those rays again, I swear..."
@laddaleangthong2684 2 роки тому
Noice, now I have other thing to blame instead of lag when it's clearly my fault that I lose because I'm bad.
@apollyon10 2 роки тому
HAHAHAHAHAHAH
@ahmedexmor 2 роки тому
That's my newest excuse and conversation starter
@raceabilene 2 роки тому
I'm now blaming the misfire that gave me a 2nd in Solo on Fortnite last night on those damn cosmic rays.
@aestheticvibezz142 2 роки тому
But It will be hard to explain your teammates 😏
@StefanLopuszanski 2 роки тому
"Timmy, why don't you have your homework? Don't tell me your dog ate it." "No, teacher it was a cosmic ray bit flip that ate it!"
@f1shyspace 2 роки тому
Imma use this excuse as a reason for the teacher to show this vid in class
@SharienGaming 2 роки тому
well timmy that should teach you about regularily saving your files while you are working on it. and dont try that old "the flip corrupted the file" nonsense - a single bit flip might corrupt a character, but not the whole thing - i wasnt born yesterday you know? XD
@lonestarr1490 2 роки тому
@@SharienGaming Even if it corrupted the file, the file would still be there - in stark contrast to Timmy's homework.
@SharienGaming 2 роки тому
@@lonestarr1490 exactly!^^
@stevensrocks798 7 місяців тому
9:58 the way you've portrayed that looks like the sprites you get in the upper atmosphere.
@RespecterAlexander Місяць тому
What a great Veritasium video!
@sharishth 2 роки тому
Maria: The cosmos chose me, for so I am the rightful leader chosen by the universe.
@Arkantos117 2 роки тому
@@mauricegoz Gave her enough publicity to win at a later date though.
@rachmawanatmajiperdana8866 2 роки тому
maybe leader was not a correct term but representative
@johndoe-cx6ro 2 роки тому
@@mauricegoz on the other hand the Cosmos sure loved Biden
@blucantrell2 2 роки тому
@@Arkantos117 did it?
@raidev_ 2 роки тому
@@johndoe-cx6ro?
@WinTheCloud 2 роки тому
“Blue screen of death can be caused by cosmic particles” Nice try Microsoft
@elviscaragea4433 2 роки тому
I will wait here untill this comment gets 10k likes 😌
@klauskinnunen7404 2 роки тому
I love this comment
@thommy270 2 роки тому
Never seen anything like that on linux tho...
@MrSpruce 2 роки тому
@@elviscaragea4433 you will be here a long time chief
@tantormoe687 2 роки тому
@@elviscaragea4433 u good?
@blvck265 3 дні тому
That ending was a nice touch.
@chuckery5177 8 годин тому
Nature vs the unnatural is such an epic battle
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