Wildfire Smoke Particles Suck!

Honestly, until I wrote the date down for the title of this post, I didn't realize it was September 11th, Patriot Day, today. And that's how out of it I've been lately.

I got sick last week and wasn't able to get online and get anything done, or read or whatever. And so I wasn't even able to respond to the Thursday Open Thread. Bleh! I'm so sorry!

Therefore I also wasn't able to get something really good going for this week's post. So, I'm posting an interesting article from the BBC that was written a few years ago; it's about computer errors caused by cosmic rays and is called 'The Computer Errors from Outer Space'. I wonder how to keep computer code constantly under surveillance to check to see if a bit flips because of a cosmic ray? What if the surveillance code bit gets flipped? Interesting stuff!

Solar Flares, image from Nasa, via the BBC article linked above.