[pinkmuffinere]

I'm a non-bio person. Is that a coincidence, or is that because of similarity between our nervous system and electronics?

[PaulHoule]

I think it's a good rule of thumb. When they send robots into something like the Fukushima site they don't last long.

My first take is that I'm not surprised from a fermi problem standpoint that you can destroy two computers made from small parts smashed by radiation with a similar dose. But maybe that intuition is wrong because your brain could survive losing a few neurons but a microchip could be 0% functional after losing one transistor. My rule of thumb is about right for conventional chips but you can certainly get rad-hard chips that hold up better:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening

Space is a big market for that sort of thing.

[bsder]

> Is that a coincidence

Mostly it's about penetration.

Any radiation that can get through your skin can do damage. Once that happens, the question is then how much flux is there doing damage.