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by beeeeerp 762 days ago
I think it’s worth mentioning here COTS hardware is also very resilient (things like ZFS without ECC excluded) to radiation these days.

Here’s a video of a GoPro riding through an electron beam: https://youtu.be/Uf4Ux4SlyT4?si=6z6626hrdXhvZ2x_

There are lots of bad things happening while it’s in the middle of the beam, but it appears to function normally after completing the pass.

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That is a cool video. Tho, to be fair, it is enclosed in a Pb / Pb-glass housing to shield it!!! Haha :)
That is good to mention!