[taneq]

I'm really interested to see how far consumer electronics will actually be proved useful in space. There's this perception that designing for space is ultra-difficult and requires n-tuple redundancy and specially fabricated radiation-hardened processors etc. but I wonder how much of that is just because when you're spending a billion dollars on a mission you REALLY don't want to lose it to some random bit flip and so you drop $100mil on goldplating the absolute heck out of everything.