The Universe is Hostile to Computers

I wish i can relate 😅 i never learned how to code .

@@zinodz8774 it's never too late to learn anything!

@@Shuroii you know .....i can make a million excuses .but let's just say that "it is what it is" :)

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

Haha I had the same thought

The alphabet flip in your comment is poetic.

AntsCanada?

Take a smoke detector with you next time you visit an ATM.

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.

You just need uranium

"I wonder where I'll land..." *hits something and a yahoo! plays* "Oh."

Then my PC is a best option for them. But in other way. (Blue crashing screen)

“Insert can you hear the music soundtrack” 😂

hhahhahahahahahhhAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHgha aHA HA HA HA

"It's been an honour, plumber boy."

or maybe the universe could turn the robots against us

​@@HasteHub🤣🤣🤣

Bit flipping is evolution for robots

​@@DonkadocusEvolution isn't always guaranteed.
If not a random particle, then it could be a random continent-sized rock flying through space.

Your dinosaur profile picture makes your comment about robots 10 times better :))

😂

i knew it🤣

This comment is Gold 😂

They bastards: Universe stole Cyberpunk!

shitty on an astronomical scale.

😭

LMFAO

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

Joe biden 2020 :)

Wow, indeed the _stars may have aligned._

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>

​@@Lizards_LoungeEhh id say the better alternative is having a failsafe

@@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.

@@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

@@Lizards_Loungeor... use ecc ram (ray proofed)

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

“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)

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.

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.

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

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.

Tf?

@@Zeburakeki maybe they were referencing the video?

This makes me want to grab people in the streets and say "Have you head this?"

ikr so weird

Bro not joking, I missed him and his videos. Especially Mindset series!

i love how story folds back on itself on minute 10 exactly like vsauce does too :D

right? WRONG

@@AxxLAfriku happy 9th birthday!

@@sothreego mindfield*

you computer engineer 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 i laughed so hard 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@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?

​@@AlexMkd1984you do know people have actual jobs right? 😭

Didn’t expect to see you guys here!

"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!"

Here before 1k likes

*Science, molecules and convenience* - Hank Pym Hishe 2015 🤣

Nice idea 😂😂

Universe be like : "hey, we know this guy. Let us give 4096 votes!"

@@zazanashrulhuda does maria sound like a dude name?

@@patrickbateman2164 it absolutely could be. Heard of di maria?

@@patrickbateman2164 I would not have that

@@Itsgyro that's a surname kid.

Or it could turn against you and pull you back 3 stages down

@@aweslayne lmaooooooo

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...

@@parthivdoddarapu901 nope his dev messed up, he increased the rates.
Dream is sorry

@@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)

Lol 😆🤣😂

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

Funniest joke of the day

LMAOOOOO

@@Mynipplesmychoice wtf?

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.

I just thought that Dream could now use this as an excuse 😂

@@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

Speedrunning games and their lives at the same time, brilliant

Why is Mio smoking?

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

In the past folks used to say it was the act of gods. The same strange kind of events.

My school work was ate by the do… ohh I mean… a cosmic ray caused it to be deleted off my computer.

Any Tech issue i have im just gonna say "Bit
flip".

According to the video, so did Microsoft.

Damn

That single event would very much upset me

Also narrating it each time. 😂

@@magnushultgrenhtc and recording it

@@fstorino That was a nice one 😂

AND Then by coincidence a bit flips and the plane loses altitude just like that A330 in the video

😀

Underrated comment. I love it!

It is against democracy but but but supernova is not a human

Yo nice pfp

A separate one must really like speedrunning

So true 🤣

😂

which means she should have won and rightly so :)

She's the ultimate lobbyist.

Too bad for Maria, the universe is not very bright

lol

Has probably happened the other way though 🤔

@@NonsenseTreasure F in the chat for humanity

😂😂😂

A little help from the Universe

Cosmos cast ITS vote.

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.

@@DK-ox8gh ripbozo

@@DK-ox8gh That sounds quite unlikely

@@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.

$4096*

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.

Accountant says no. Go to jail, do not pass start, do not collect $200

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.

With my lucky I'd probably lose $32768 and have no way to get it back.

Good one

🤩🤩

Exactly. The entire cosmos is at her side.

Haha winner!

o-o-one of?

Imagine existing because of a supernova that happened which created a lot of new elements, which the Earth is made up of.

At this point, you're entitled to say the universe wants you to win.

Another reason why space is very cool

@@Yakoable lmao

You still need people to not notice tho

no she win the next election, chosen by ppl. Universe used plan b

The Cosmos literally voted for her.

21:21 sounds like she won in the end

Maria Vindevoghel: universe’s Marxist choice

If she was a democrat they would've just given it to her, like Joe.

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

@@stickguy9109 Visual Studio be like

Sometimes the universe itself it stacked against us

"salt mine"
I guess aperture science is safe from these rays

@@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.

Trruuee

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 KRplus today and see this.

Hahahaha ,true

you got me hahahaha

Call it Single Event Upsets (SEU) so it's less obvious

ded

A todd howard joke on a veritasium video, now I have seen it all...

@@chattw6885 Bet you haven't seen the subreddit witches against communism then

RIP

you have a typo

Literally just happened to me, caught me so off guard and freaked me out LOL

You’re so smart man, you totally didn’t watch that video that got posted today about this whole issue… gz for posting this comment! ❤

@@WwispWhat video lmao

@@Wwisp you forgot to copy and past your comment on the other 10 comments ! keep it up!👍

@@Wwisp And so what if he did? I did too, and there was nothing in the video that seemed particularly accusatory against Derek. Just that he didn't do quite enough research to prevent misinformation by exaggeration. Is there something wrong with posting comments, in good faith (speaking of my own comment at least. Obviously I cannot speak definitively for DJSlimeball), to highlight the misinformation so Veritasium and others are aware of it and can avoid or correct it?

​@@Twisted_CodeThe thing is, just because you watch a video made after this one - it doesn't mean that the newer video is more correct.
If anything the video attempting to debunk this is far more of a misinformation than anything found here. It actually only managed to prove that thst the cosmic rays were the most likely culprit, despite the maker of the video claiming it near impossible and seemingly even not fully believing they exist at all

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)

Computer: *randomly flips a bit*
IT guy: get me holy water and salt

The -exorcist- IT guy

I work with Quality Assurance, I can't even imagine testing something like that 🤣

@@generic6099 *has no idea what any of that means*

Lol

The real issue is the universe cast too many votes.

The universe is not a citizen of belgium

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.

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?

You know the rules and so do I

I was wondering were was the parity bit in all this.

@@cyscott2714 seriously 😳

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 😥

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.

I guess the cosmos itself was watching the speed run

so your telling me speedrun happens without this phenomenon?

A literal miracle. The more we learn, the less ridiculous the concept of 'divine intervention' seems.

@@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?

Except... you will never be able to come close to replicating your record either. Which isn't a good look

It was a cosmic particle I swear!

Hahaha real

Per chance, Is this an 'iniquity' reference?

LOL

Did you mean lose? There is only one o in lose. Loose is what your shoe laces do.

😂😂 But only Legends can understand.

“I’m starfarts and i approve of this message”

This got me in tears! 😂😂😂😂

She is chosen by the Cosmos.

Lol

Humanity is like a snake, some are at the head and some further back :D

Maybe they’re trying to delude themselves into thinking it’s not their fault.

Big brain time: Maybe cosmic rays flipped the impulse in the neuron responsible for pressing the gas vs. not pressing on the gas.

@King Pistachion Hoomans

@@darko.v "Hew-mons!" If you're Ferengi.

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.

We should just use the computers they used in the late '60s for lunar missions. They seemed to survive okay.

@@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.

@@prakharmishra3000 But they still had registers, acumulators.... running on silicon. Program was rope memory (try to beat that).

This thread is educational as hell.

Imagine if US elections had this level of investigation and integrity. I'm actually surprised the dems haven't claimed this is what happened... "Yep looks like cosmic particles account for the voter irregularities in every single county we needed to win."

Divine elected leaders, what could go wrong

@@theexpatriate Better than the idiots we are surrounded by choosing leaders..

@@smokayman oh no, you are one of the Trumpies.
Seriously, trump also claims fraud although he won agonist Clinton. He really is just a sore loser, just as his followers. And trust me, I don’t like the democrats either, but Trumps claims are ridiculous

@@musiccer7446 you don’t have to be a Trump supporter to see there was fraud.

And hope it doesn't change from 1 to 0

@@blaxmas cant flip from 1 to 0 when its already 0 😎

the sign bit

NO!! this never happen!!! never. is cosmicly impossible

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

Genius

excuses that would probably work for students on Mars

Literally a sign from the universe that you deserve that run

REALLY good rng

It wont work ur computer is protected, he said it in the vid

@@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.

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.

So people eat features

"I totally meant to do that." - The Universe

Tech: Yes what is your problem maam ?
Customer: My laptop wont start.
Tech: Its cosmic rays maam, i cant do anything about that.

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.

Why am I getting constant BSOD's? Cosmic particles.

The IT equivalent of archeology's "It's ceremonial"

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.

Luckily, it's not a blindfold run.

DREAM

Say you beat the world record with a cosmic bit flip glitch in a glitches allowed category…. Does it count? It’s the ultimate glitch.

Does anyone else think this sounds like a bad anime title

@@ryanklick3572 If that were to be allowed even in runs that aren't glitchless it would lead to the ultimate strategy to be to put your computer inside particle colider and just play hoping for some lucky glitches.

Exactly why they blamed a soft error. This conspiracy goes all the way to the top!!

i c u. the error is the mandela effect.

Imagine 🤯

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...

@@senantiasa hahaha absolutely

😂

@Ben W probably

Cosmic Ray sort ftw

337 likes, nice

"But why where we able to reproduce it?"
"The universe hates me!"

*Dream :*

you punch the cartridge
- it looks like i found a new strat

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

wonder how dream got that amount of subscribers... hmm

@@theneekofficial8829 isnt that the one in this video

Cosmic particles. Now i have an excuse.

😂😂😂

Just reboot

"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."

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.

Thats what i thought lol. I even said the Hello Vsauce Michael here thing

OR DID I?

♦️SERCH ADITYA RATHORE-HE ALSO MAKES INFORMATIVE CONTENT LIKE VERTASIUM

Same here bro😂

@@Soundslikemids you aren't dead..... or are you? 🎶 🎶 🎶 🎶...........

and any neuron in your brain. boom! and you no longer remember your first crush's mom's maiden name. or something more important...

​@@valinorean4816 Luckily, memories aren't stored in single bits of information in our brains ^-^ So that won't happen. Though one strand of DNA could change, but it would likely be killed by other healthy cells. It's only going to very heavily change reproduction.
very lucky for us

@@heated1333 and how are they stored? (I vaguely remember that for the long-term memories it's not just about neural circuits and there are some special proteins, restricted to one neuron, that's why i said this?)

@@valinorean4816 most memories are stored in physical pathways, very small but not exactly similar to computer chips. Some of them are stronger paths then others, but almost all of them should be strong enough to resist getting wiped from rads. Actually some people have even had memory survive through things like a pickaxe in the head :D
Humans are both surprisingly resistant and vulnerable at the same time

@@heated1333 links on this info?

Noice, now I have other thing to blame instead of lag
when it's clearly my fault that I lose because I'm bad.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

That's my newest excuse and conversation starter

I'm now blaming the misfire that gave me a 2nd in Solo on Fortnite last night on those damn cosmic rays.

But It will be hard to explain your teammates 😏

Nice!

TiB also stands for Tebibyte, which is 2^40 bytes.

Sir you need a noble prize. this here is genius

Transistor-Inverted Bit

amazing!

Hahaha funniest comment ever

LOL'ed more than I should have hahaha

The hard part is not blaming it for everything.

Was thinking to comment this, 100% agree.

@@emmaisalone ..?

Hahahahaha awesome:)

Anshul Gupta

@@EstuaryEstuary mechaspirit

@@kaon9181
*Kaon*

@@proger1960
Proger 19

It's funny. Even if Pannencoek gets it down to just 6 A-presses, they could theoretically be solved by having cosmic rays affect the emulator. Though, if you were to manipulate the bits yourself via nuclear rays, that could be the same as just cheating on an emulator, so it's a moot point.

My question is, does EZ peezy know about this?

Man just think, that particle has just finished it's journey of millions of billions of years after travelling halfway across the universe ☠

Why surprise? Billion and billions of these particles hit the earth every second.

Maybe luck is something collective, and that dude used up the next few years of luck when he did that? Would explain how everything is so… the way it is