The Universe is Hostile to Computers

[@SheetMusicBoss]

"Sir, why were you going over the speed limit?" "Uhhhh... Cosmic particles?"

[@tonydai782]

Didn’t expect to see you guys here!

[@GY-bd9bo]

"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!"

[@tanishqkumar1640]

Here before 1k likes

[@HarnaiDigital]

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

[@tfraidium1602]

Nice idea 😂😂

[@AntsCanada]

Ok but how do we get one of those charged particles to flip a 0 in our bank accounts so we can get an extra million $$$$ by mistake? Asking for a friend.

[@actsrv9]

The alphabet flip in your comment is poetic.

[@elisusisgay]

AntsCanada?

[@ChatGPT1111]

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

[@lach888c2]

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.

[@tonyzang2344]

You just need uranium

[@h.a.9880]

Just imagine, a black hole shoots a jet of near-light-speed particles in a random direction, one of these particles travels through space for billions of years, passes by stars, black holes, entire galaxies... and then it just sorta makes Mario teleport to a higher platform. The universe is such a weird an crazy place.

[@himadrijoshi]

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.

[@aidenorpington4637]

Tf?

[@teosandell4278]

@@Zeburakeki maybe they were referencing the video?

[@jesperengelbredt]

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

[@yamligma]

ikr so weird

[@stephenwong8053]

Billion year old particle: "what is my purpose" Universe: "you help people jump higher in mario"

[@RainyDayDance]

the cosmic rays bit flipping mario has been disproven. Mario up-warping in that clip was actually due to DOTA_teabag's n64 cartridge slot being in bad condition. I'm tired of people spreading this initial theory as fact.

[@theultimategodofgaming3200]

@@RainyDayDance Okay but it's funny

[@Sircence]

@@theultimategodofgaming3200not really :/

[@embermage8273]

@@Sircence WRONG! My ass HAS been laughed off, I'm in extreme pain.

[@Sircence]

@@embermage8273 you’ll understand once you get use to a joke that isn’t original, but hey im glad your getting a chuckle out of it

[@martinstiles7922]

Me, a software engineer, encountering a bug after watching this video: "yeah that must be the cosmic radiation again, definitely no errors in my code for sure"

[@zinodz8774]

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

[@Shuroii]

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

[@zinodz8774]

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

[@matchedpowerofthesun]

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

[@ryanm7263]

Haha I had the same thought

[@kalebbruwer]

"How did you win?" "I guess the stars just aligned"

[@panda_invention1810]

😭

[@leosmi1]

LMFAO

[@WolfyPlays]

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

[@gbxmusicchannel3836]

Joe biden 2020 :)

[@harsharya545]

Wow, indeed the _stars may have aligned._

[@pflolssa]

Maria's next campaign slogan: "even the universe wants me to win"

[@shardator]

Cosmos cast ITS vote.

[@DK-ox8gh]

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.

[@oofy_emma1072]

@@DK-ox8gh ripbozo

[@jonathanbautz3234]

@@DK-ox8gh That sounds quite unlikely

[@haziblathif491]

@@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.

[@micaarzur]

Every day I pray for the 16th bit of my bank account's balance to be triggered by cosmic radiation 🙏

[@junioreinstein-ps8dh]

wth this comment is so underrated 😂😂😂

[@BatmanOnABudget]

​@@junioreinstein-ps8dh check the top comment

[@the-g2h]

the reply above me can't be a real person there's just no way

[@junioreinstein-ps8dh]

@the-g2h why

[@leekc12]

@the-g2hhow

[@moy2010]

"It was caused by a cosmic ray" will be my favourite excuse from now on.

[@DaleTrevors]

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

[@wokevirushandsanitzer5300]

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

[@aghostofrazgriz5137]

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

[@NevilleEkka]

According to the video, so did Microsoft.

[@stanleybochenek1862]

Damn

[@JCW7100]

"Computers work precisely because bits don't flip unless we want them to. Or do they?" Cue Vsauce music.

[@sothreego]

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

[@zukacs]

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

[@fittypea]

right? WRONG

[@abhinavgaming2110]

@@AxxLAfriku happy 9th birthday!

[@Parajulibkrm]

@@sothreego mindfield*

[@elephantheart9988]

So the universe itself casted its 4,096 votes, and we just discounted them? sheesh

[@zazanashrulhuda]

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

[@patrickbateman2164]

@@zazanashrulhuda does maria sound like a dude name?

[@Itsgyro]

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

[@lukerogers979]

@@patrickbateman2164 I would not have that

[@patrickbateman2164]

@@Itsgyro that's a surname kid.

[@seanmcbee4083]

21:50 That transition tho

[@kanye227]

I shat my pants

[@proxy_server]

Jumpscare 😂

[@Fishtanktyler]

​@@kanye227 same😅😅

[@TimmyBoja]

Anyone else scan the QR and get the prize?

[@Kamilione]

I'm a software engineer and now every issue explanation will be "it's cosmic rays, man"

[@surferp89]

Trruuee

[@CertainOverlord]

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 KZbin today and see this.

[@shobhitsadwal756]

Hahahaha ,true

[@epel3010]

you got me hahahaha

[@mk_rexx]

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

[@MrScientific]

I hope the bit flips on the bank server where my account balance data is stored.

[@blaxmas]

And hope it doesn't change from 1 to 0

[@dapizzaking4455]

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

[@hypenheimer]

the sign bit

[@edyasia]

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

[@philipjkb15]

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

[@oath_5208]

Imagine having a bad run and then the universe is like: “I gotchu bro”

[@aweslayne]

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

[@almostok692]

@@aweslayne lmaooooooo

[@parthivdoddarapu901]

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...

[@averagegenzguy2751]

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

[@hypnotoad28]

@@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)

[@antoninduda9078]

That BSoD at the end scared the living hell out of me, holy moly...

[@200_cuentos]

Imagine sitting in a plane and the guy next to you pulls out a Geiger counter.

[@fstorino]

That single event would very much upset me

[@magnushultgrenhtc]

Also narrating it each time. 😂

[@juliusxi1666]

@@magnushultgrenhtc and recording it

[@obnoxioussubconscious8895]

@@fstorino That was a nice one 😂

[@chob.h7914]

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

[@MCMH2000]

**Calculator spits out a different number, than i expect** "These stupid galaxies, i swear..."

[@RezonSV]

Lol 😆🤣😂

[@Mynipplesmychoice]

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

[@studyingisfun5868]

Funniest joke of the day

[@nuggetz9380]

LMAOOOOO

[@danielarnold9042]

@@Mynipplesmychoice wtf?

[@lunasophia9002]

"Cosmic rays" has been a sysadmin joke for explaining system failure for about 30 years, and it's cool to have a video like this that actually explains what happens.

[@farmergiles1065]

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.

[@chriskennedy2846]

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

[@prakharmishra3000]

@@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.

[@38911bytefree]

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

[@PriceAintRight]

This thread is educational as hell.

[@1tastiger1]

Correction on the Mario speedrun upwarp: that has not been confirmed; even the person that produced the video the article The Gamer wrote (a less-than-thorough company anyway) says they think it's highly unlikely it was a bit flip, much less a cosmic ray flipping it. Most of the community agrees, and further research into the actual N64 and game cartridge this happened on is hinting more at just a hardware glitch or something like that. Again, still not solved, but most likely not a cosmic ray.

[@yoopicul8237]

exactly brother

[@h3ck774]

yea we saw the video to

[@timmalcrov8876]

So Cyberpunk isnt "buggy", its just "cosmically attuned"

[@TheAsianKidxD]

😂

[@captainrogerdodger144]

i knew it🤣

[@shreyashshambharkar3973]

This comment is Gold 😂

[@_____J______]

They bastards: Universe stole Cyberpunk!

[@ronisaiba9623]

shitty on an astronomical scale.

[@TheBlakeGG]

Veritasium really has the highest production value educational videos on all of youtube

[@Sopixil]

Kurzgesagt is pretty high up there too

[@SantoLucasST]

Can you prove this?

[@Malkovith2]

PBS Space Time is high up there as well. In general Veritasium is just one of many, and I think Derek has no beef with that.

[@manajsarkar5172]

His presentation is just awesome

[@user-wi6vkq21k9a]

Vsauce gang

[@GeneralLizations]

This is the singlehandedly the most ultimate excuse for all IT professionals. Thank you Veritasium, you have no idea how invaluable this video is to us overworked sysadmins and poor souls of tech support around the world.

[@starscream2092]

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

[@zicho1st]

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.

[@InsanePorcupine]

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

[@contrapasta2454]

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

[@firstlast9292]

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.

[@ChadieRahimian]

Thanks

[@iainballas]

Skynet: "Peace was never an option." Cosmic Ray: *Zap* Skynet: "Peace was always an option."

[@kakalimukherjee3297]

lol

[@NonsenseTreasure]

Has probably happened the other way though 🤔

[@이름-w8l7n]

@@NonsenseTreasure F in the chat for humanity

[@McGravyBoii]

😂😂😂

[@gokuldas027]

A little help from the Universe

[@OurHeroXero]

Imagine holding a speed run record because a cosmic ray bit-flipped the right bit...at the right time..leaving you with a nigh-unbeatable record.

[@noodleman793]

I guess the cosmos itself was watching the speed run

[@thelonedev]

so your telling me speedrun happens without this phenomenon?

[@somerandom7672]

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

[@DevinDTV]

@@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?

[@lawjef]

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

[@andreasplosky8516]

"The Universe is Hostile to Computers" The universe is hostile to a lot of things. Great video.

[@GardeDuCoeur]

Yep The Universe is Hostile to life before everything 👌

[@guruprasaathm]

including me...

[@kashi9447]

what if aliens made them so other civilizations can't get too advanced too quickly O.o

[@petter9399]

what a psuedo-intellectual response xDD

[@naniwo4438]

@Charlei13 the universe could use some therapy

[@ChrisMorray]

This explains why "turning it off and on again" is always good practice. The odds are extremely low, but never 0.

[@rabsaque]

Maria can say universe literally was on her side that day

[@martinsimeonov1563]

So true 🤣

[@ricardorico1677]

😂

[@TimVolkovPhD]

which means she should have won and rightly so :)

[@bumblebee9337]

She's the ultimate lobbyist.

[@AnAdequateViolinist]

Too bad for Maria, the universe is not very bright

[@astral6749]

"Our game doesn't have bugs, they're just a primary target of cosmic rays!" - Todd Howard, probably

[@jeffrodiziack5285]

ded

[@chattw6885]

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

[@yepespp1664]

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

[@Vangriffeth]

RIP

[@glass7923]

you have a typo

[@EdgarFroes]

I wouldn't want to be those guys debugging the error, that should've been so frustrating to reproduce.

[@jkojkojkojk]

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

[@TheWormzerjr]

i c u. the error is the mandela effect.

[@RasputinGandini]

Imagine 🤯

[@senantiasa]

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...

[@EdgarFroes]

@@senantiasa hahaha absolutely

[@awsomemodels]

3:07 Vsauce is that you ?

[@humberthagansayan773]

Veritasium is a really good Channel name lol

[@Bismuth9]

I am very pleasantly surprised to see Super Mario 64 and the work of Pannenkoek2012 mentioned in a Veritasium video! As someone trying to combine science and speedrunning into one edutainment mix, seeing one of the best science vulgarizers on KZbin talk about Super Mario 64 is a clash of worlds I never expected to see.

[@bubbas.0]

yea!

[@alpha9775]

hi bismuth

[@emir4707]

What a luck

[@Jacktrack7]

Yeah I was surprised too, I've been watching both Veritasium and Speedrunning content (including yours) for years now, It's a weird but cool crossover...

[@AlkisGD]

“Science vulgarizers”. _Nice._

[@timmilgram]

Great, you guys just gave Adobe an excuse not to fix Premiere

[@Shddx_]

😂😂😂

[@benty6024]

@@Leruster i like that resolve is free, but i don’t have a stupidly powerful computer that can meet its minimum requirements, i have 2 gb of vram but resolve needs 8 or else even on 1/8 scale it’s unusably laggy edit: also my processor is a 3rd gen, dual core intel

[@rikilshah]

@@benty6024 Well, I have puny 2GB, GT1030 and Resolve works very well. At least, I can edit without much issues.

[@benty6024]

@@rikilshah wel my computer has a seizure every time i open resolve

[@benty6024]

@@kofiy which cpu do you have?

[@olaciencia]

Derek, this is one of the best videos we've watched on the internet. Thank you for such amazing content!

[@3denym860]

Agree

[@Razorfiend]

Agree wholeheartedly, I had a smile on my face for the entire duration. Brilliant video.

[@koubeen16]

I totally Agree !

[@HashamWajih619]

Very true

[@jungleb]

Came for this comment. Same feeling. Reminds me from the first time I watched Muller's and Stevens's video

[@johnlimusicofficial220]

21:48 BRO THAT WAS GENIUS 😂😂🎉❤

[@pixxelwizzard]

The fact that this issue was detected by troubleshooting technicians impresses the hell out of me. Holy cow! This was such a fascinating video. Thank you!!

[@levelup1279]

If your a programmer this is pretty obvious, especially since it was a binary value. The second he said the number 4096 I instantly knew what the cause was. I wonder how many people have lost elections for the same thing happening in the other direction.

[@steveunderhill5935]

Thank you democracy

[@johnnyneckar4977]

​@@levelup1279 Yup, the second he said 4096 it was obvious, "oh, a bit got flipped". Pretty much any programmer worth their salt is going to immediately recognize any number in 2^n for n

[@Arjun-jm4ll]

@@levelup1279 alright then tell me something about it that he didn't sayin the vid.

[@jayhare3375]

@@Arjun-jm4ll Missing comma amongst a thousand lines of code 😂

[@kopanvezer]

Supernova probably billions of years ago: Yeah I think Maria looks promising, but since I'm a cosmic event my vote is worth 4096 votes!

[@faizan.]

😀

[@rocioayra9866]

Underrated comment. I love it!

[@kaushalsanyal5924]

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

[@michaelsoddy1892]

Yo nice pfp

[@DetectiveWraith]

A separate one must really like speedrunning

[@boboyqc]

This is one of the best "What the F---" videos I've seen in a while... How they eventually came to the conclusion a cosmic ray influenced an election is mind-boggingly awesome. This is the work of so many generations of individuals... And it's all in your video! Awesome. Just... Awesome.

[@makotodaiwaambara2814]

Just wanna say the same, this is one of the best.

[@NationalParkDiaries]

Agreed! This reminded me so much of the physics docs that captivated me in high school.

[@Emppu_T.]

Now, imagine if every election received such scrutiny 😂

[@WilliamNyberg]

@@Emppu_T. shhh..

[@RSAgility]

@@Emppu_T. you’re right, imagine, we would of never had any republicans…

[@AntonioClaudioMichael]

What a great video as always And the blue screen of death every once in awhile on only one of my laptops this makes so much sense

[@kiandymundi]

that blue screen joke at the end stressed me out haha, u got me

[@crow5228]

k 👍

[@bigthickchicken9869]

Cool

[@jackreacher9485]

yea ikr. hahaha

[@loganhall6660]

It jump scared me a little.

[@saschakuhness6731]

likewise, seeing that my computer actually crashed halfway through the vid. Then he hits me with two of those scares!

[@AutumnPrinceProductions]

The fact that people can figure this stuff out is astounding and awesome

[@andclose1133]

No this is what you call a white wash excuse to what the real reason ACCUALLY is

[@stanleybochenek1862]

Yes

[@jessicaphillips763]

I know! I have a learning disability and it's hard for me to understand how things work. I wish I had a better brain.!

[@bloddrinkeraka]

​@@jessicaphillips763 Just get a sacrifice and you'll be able to change it

[@jessicaphillips763]

@@bloddrinkeraka 👍

[@elijahclark2667]

I already knew about the Mario Speedrun but that's still so crazy that a random particle in the universe happened to fly in the EXACT right spot through his console at the exact moment to make him fly forward and skip half the level. Man's used up his entire lifespan worth of luck in one moment

[@KyleBaran90]

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.

[@wesleystoltz8421]

My question is, does EZ peezy know about this?

[@ashokathegreat8731]

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

[@tannhaeuserx464]

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

[@damonedrington3453]

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

[@Xandro42]

Stop flipping my bit universe.

[@okboing]

I appreciate how Derek doesn't just say why something happens, and actually goes into depth specifically which bit flipped and what that caused

[@NandR]

As soon as I saw the extra votes were 4096 I knew it had to be a binary problem. The game 2048 helped me remember powers of 2.

[@fairwitness7473]

The important thing here, is that we understand this. AND we want to understand.

[@silverphoenix_1756]

@@NandR Me too

[@SoExo]

@@NandR haha exactly the same for me!

[@priyanshsiingh]

Providing context is very helpful!

[@HaggisMuncher-69-420]

Maria is one of the only people that can claim the universe elected her.

[@iam_sirius]

Good one

[@harshitraj953]

🤩🤩

[@sridharkrishnan1591]

Exactly. The entire cosmos is at her side.

[@RC-zf7hp]

Haha winner!

[@moobloom155]

o-o-one of?

[@bloodwolf2609]

Imagine winning an election because of a supernova that happened billions of years ago

[@alice_in_wonderland42]

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

[@Yakoable]

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

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Another reason why space is very cool

[@cubing7276]

@@Yakoable lmao

[@cubing7276]

You still need people to not notice tho

[@justanep1cplayer66]

21:46 I almost got a heart attack and spit my noodles, LMAO

[@kujojotarostandoceanman2641]

Imagine getting a new world record of speedrun because a cosmic rays shoots your computer

[@tillson8686]

Literally a sign from the universe that you deserve that run

[@samstoddard4191]

REALLY good rng

[@Mohammed-op4kv]

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

[@eclipset.9683]

@@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.

[@test-rj2vl]

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.

[@Vienna3080]

Can’t wait for speed runners to start speedrunning in Cherynbol for an extra second less

[@thekingoftheworld9553]

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

[@johnbaker7102]

@@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

[@jimpie6150]

Speedrunning games and their lives at the same time, brilliant

[@noelvalenzarro]

Why is Mio smoking?

[@rzezzy1]

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

[@FureyinHD]

This is the most drawn out excuse for losing a 1v1, ever. Let it go, Derek.

[@woomynation]

It was a cosmic particle I swear!

[@supasf]

Hahaha real

[@LordVodka313]

Per chance, Is this an 'iniquity' reference?

[@miguelwsth]

LOL

[@steviebee1989]

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

[@anomalytm05]

21:29 Imagine being that person. You can brag even the universe voted for you.

[@tristfall1]

As a software engineer, we've been blaming cosmic rays for our bugs for years. "I assure you, despite you having the error right in front of you, it's impossible. Have you tried running our software from inside a salt mine?"

[@stickguy9109]

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

[@Vysair]

@@stickguy9109 Visual Studio be like

[@ericrowe1412]

Sometimes the universe itself it stacked against us

[@TheFinnish1]

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

[@DanKaschel]

@@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.

[@brendinflinn3227]

“I swear I turned in my homework online! It must have been the cosmic rays!” Should be the new “dog ate my homework”

[@murat4582]

Genius

[@mikejohnstonbob935]

excuses that would probably work for students on Mars

[@rvjarlos9763]

*fails to hand in homework “It’s the cosmic rays fault”

[@alansony2144]

Lol

[@carloagapito8238]

No! Everything is Mikey's fault

[@asyncxeno]

This joke would have made 0 sense 2 years ago. Crazy how much the world changed.

[@Alex-lm7cx]

I work in IT support and this was like learning that demons are real.

[@generic6099]

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)

[@yukariyakumo9622]

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

[@spooderman6312]

The -exorcist- IT guy

[@JVRD27]

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

[@abandonedaccount123]

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

[@ashen_madhusanka]

"coding ERROR occurred: let's run it again without changing anything" make sense now

[@mattstorm360]

Cosmic particles. Now i have an excuse.

[@tinotales]

😂😂😂

[@Solkre82]

Just reboot

[@Goodpizzaa]

"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."

[@kdavis4910]

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.

[@sharishth]

Maria: The cosmos chose me, for so I am the rightful leader chosen by the universe.

[@Arkantos117]

@@mauricegoz Gave her enough publicity to win at a later date though.

[@rachmawanatmajiperdana8866]

maybe leader was not a correct term but representative

[@johndoe-cx6ro]

@@mauricegoz on the other hand the Cosmos sure loved Biden

[@blucantrell2]

@@Arkantos117 did it?

[@raidev_]

@@johndoe-cx6ro?

[@danielm4136]

i come back to this once a month

[@Spacemuffin147]

“So now bugs are not only an obstacle, they’re a feature” - The Universe

[@charlietube7165]

So people eat features

[@tiffyw92]

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

[@MHGFTW]

"Drivers pressing down on the gas, thinking it was the brake" Yeah, that will do it too...

[@VieShaphiel]

An example of a Toyota car driver doing exactly that is coincidentally one of the hottest news in Japan recently. It even got a wikipedia article ("Higashi-Ikebukuro runaway car accident").

[@chukwudiilozue9171]

99% of the time it's user error.

[@emillyyelen5169]

@@VieShaphiel Accident happened more than 2 years before all this and he was sentenced 2 days ago...interesting

[@egarcia1360]

Bit flip? No, foot flip!

[@molybdaen11]

Its called the ape test - give your program to an ape and let him do whatever he wants with it. The program is allowed to react to his false inputs - but not to break down by a random shortcut or normally impossible or illogical chain of events. If your program can pass that, its ready for the mass market :)

[@RhettShull]

I love this channel so much.

[@OKobern]

Me too!

[@waterisntwet8947]

I love you so much.

[@Thouxanbangeo]

I do too

[@prestonak]

Verified spammer

[@frankiesslipal3730]

A lot of love

[@DaniellaRoselia]

This is so fascinating

[@anshulgupta9754]

Boss: "Anshul, why is your code not working properly?" Me: "let me tell you about cosmic rays..."

[@tonis864]

Hahahahaha awesome:)

[@EstuaryEstuary]

Anshul Gupta

[@kaon9181]

@@EstuaryEstuary mechaspirit

[@proger1960]

@@kaon9181 *Kaon*

[@aiyoof498]

@@proger1960 Proger 19

[@MusicalBasics]

I didn't plan on watching this entire video, but now I did, and I feel like I'm 10 times smarter, thank you Veritaseum

[@DeadCandIe]

Can’t break the 69 likes

[@CM-kl9qh]

“10” requires 2 bits to flip at the same time. Extremely unlikely. 8 or 16 would be more believable. Or 32. Or 64. 128 256 512 …

[@erfer981]

Same lol

[@IgnacioAlcala777]

Lucky you! In my case, everytime I learn something I remember that I'm 1000 times more ignorant because of all the things I don't -and many of them won't- know...

[@manuelmerced4367]

Look I don't mean to be mean or anything but this is exactly what's wrong with our generation. We watch a 20 minute video on particle physics and we think we know anything at all about particles physics. A small understanding of what was explained does not mean we understand it and this is apparent in everything we do because we're always telling people what things are without actually understanding the subject.

[@StefanMilo]

woooooah that thing that shows the path of particles is tooo cool

[@jeremiahpeter7394]

I agree 💯👍😎🇲🇾🌈🍀✌️

[@codycagle3241]

Absolutely fascinating, it's called a cloud chamber.

[@That_Freedom_Guy]

Yeah! I want one! Hey, did you know there are Bubble chambers too. The Cloud chamber is condensing water in air, and the Bubble chamber is forming air bubbles in water.

[@andersvesterholt2170]

You can actually make one yourself. It's Okay To Be Smart has a guide on it.

[@emilen2]

I think you can make one with ethanol. When a super saturated atmosphere of ethanol is struck by particles it will temporarily mist in cloudy streaks.

[@mohammadhesamshaelaie8567]

Thank you for your amazing videos. There is so much mind-blowing information in them, and I really enjoy watching them.

[@rajaharzaai420]

Maria should have been declared winner, I mean even the universe itself voted for her.

[@Isai314]

Lol

[@IronGravyBoat]

The real issue is the universe cast too many votes.

[@olaffalo4686]

The universe is not a citizen of belgium

[@arthas640]

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.

[@noone-jw4gm]

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?

[@gun123456zak]

*The stars align* Universe: "Bank error in your favor." Universe: "Collect $5000"

[@tigrafale4610]

$4096*

[@TheRmbomo]

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.

[@Torchedini]

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

[@scifino1]

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.

[@worldalternate]

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

[@FishingtonFarms]

On behalf of every QA engineer who's had to spend hours trying to replicate an unreproducible bug... thank you for spreading this knowledge.

[@ИосифСталин-о4г]

Wdym "unreproducible"? Just take your time, 100^91943 years should be enough..

[@timewave02012]

Hours? This is the kind of thing that takes months to trace. I was once tasked with finding the root cause of a bug (PC program freezing after a few minutes of bored user moving dialog box around) that ended up taking Microsoft kernel developers working with CPU engineers at Intel to find. It was not cosmic rays. The BIOS didn't wasn't recognizing the CPU, so it wasn't applying the microcode patch to fix a known CPU erratum.

[@Sirfrummel]

"It works on my computer"

[@abacus7087]

Just manually flip bits that you think caused the bug.

[@trielt1]

@@abacus7087 I hope you realize how ridiculous your suggestion is, and that it is sarcastic.

[@iguanaamphibioustruck7352]

In the 50's I worked for a mining company as a sampler. I accompanied geologists and did the heavy lifting.The Atomic Energy Commission AEC were doing aerial mapping in their search for uranium. Planes were contracted to tow scintillometers in N/S and E/W grids over the surface of the earth and record the gamma ray readings on a map. A hot spot was called an anomaly. Our company leaders had been employed by the AEC in the past and had access to the AEC Anomaly maps, for cash under the table at a local private club. Our investigation on the ground was often tedious and when we could not find the source of radiation, it was attributed to a "cosmic burst". Iguana Dave

[@rita2774]

Damn respect, how old are you ?

[@RitikMaurya07]

​@@rita2774 at least 80 years old

[@abhinayartham]

"Hey, why is your code failing in prod?" "cosmic rays"

[@Ben-gq9tx]

does anyone use servers without ECC Memory nowadays though?

[@kshitizjain9557]

😂

[@cmaxz817]

@@Ben-gq9tx probably

[@kasfpg]

Cosmic Ray sort ftw

[@Delta0001-y]

337 likes, nice

[@equious8413]

"Cosmic rays are trying to crash my car!!!" "Honey, you're stepping on the gas pedal." We're doomed as a species.

[@darko.v]

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

[@vodkacannon]

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

[@astronemir]

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

[@darko.v]

@King Pistachion Hoomans

[@danielharvison7510]

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

[@ThisMrMister]

I think the fact that software engineers or people who specialize in computers are able to identify a problem down to the fact that it isn't their own code that is wrong but rather an a third party event relating to the universe and that they are able to distinguish and identify it. Incredible.

[@stephendijoseph7027]

ditto

[@yvettetorres7829]

Incredible indeed

[@walmarp]

They really just made up a phenomenon and pretended we would never notice

[@ThisMrMister]

@@walmarp they're more qualified than we are. I'd believe what they'd have to say over my best guess any day.

[@sarahs472]

When you eliminate all possibilities and still haven't found the cause, you just have to get more exotic with what else you can throw at the wall and see what sticks. I was a very good manual tester that eventually became a software engineer cause I'm very observant, and very creative with breaking things.

[@Butterscotch_96]

Even though the speedrun glitch wasn’t caused by a particle, it’s still funny to joke about.

[@klaaskroket3568]

As a belgian I'm really amazed to see you accurately got all the text on the voting computer right. You could've just simply replaced it with easier English text, but you put in the work to get these details right. I really appreciate this eye for detail!

[@YoRHaUnit2Babe]

ohja weet je het zeker?!? dan heb je gvd gelijk :)

[@rdizzy1]

Here in the US there is absolutely no way in hell people would believe that explanation, they would ring up the politician as a cheater, for sure.

[@InsanePorcupine]

@@rdizzy1 I think actually the Maria person would accuse the voting office of stealing her votes, and that the larger number was correct, and it's a conspiracy against her. Then the courts would rule against her siding with the random expert dude that was like "yeah no, it was just a bit flip, see this amount it was the 13th bit". Then Maria would use this as proof the establishment was against her and get elected in using this catalyst event where her votes were stolen.

[@SpaceMan101South]

So what you’re saying is that at literally any point in time while I’m playing on my computer, the universe can vibe check my PC.

[@valinorean4816]

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

[@heated1333]

​@@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

[@valinorean4816]

@@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?)

[@heated1333]

@@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

[@valinorean4816]

@@heated1333 links on this info?

[@lukecollingwood1933]

She literally got helped by the universe and still didn’t win

[@josephputra2987]

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

[@thelikebutton3451]

The Cosmos literally voted for her.

[@BizVlogs]

21:21 sounds like she won in the end

[@hanklim5076]

Maria Vindevoghel: universe’s Marxist choice

[@sumerbc7409]

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

[@flagger2020]

I remember working with LANL when they had a special version of message passing library (LA-MPI) that did extra CRCs on the data sent as their high speed interconnects were very vulnerable to bit flips. Even so, any important computations were ran twice to confirm results.

[@Blate1]

“I begged the universe to help me break the Mario speed run world record, and the universe obliged.”

[@bastion8804]

Luckily, it's not a blindfold run.

[@vintagegamer7027]

DREAM

[@ryanklick3572]

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.

[@thursday7305]

Does anyone else think this sounds like a bad anime title

[@Laszer271]

@@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.

[@bravosix2506]

*Pilot flying plane* Cosmic ray: “I’m about to end this man’s whole career”

[@ALBINO1D]

Cosmic ray turns this comment from _underrated_ to *overrated*

[@JJayzX]

@King of Emptiness Nope, that's a whole other can of worms.

[@ctdieselnut]

That joke is the new "did you film this with a potato?"

[@serena6684]

@King of Emptiness I was thinking of this too! @JJayzX would you mind telling mind telling what other complications could lead to this?

[@JJayzX]

@@serena6684 the plane went radio silent, transponder off and purposely evaded radar. What happened to that plane was purposely done. A simple error would not be able to cause the complex nature of what happened.

[@Praharshk]

Maria's campaign must've been very convincing. Even the particles decided to vote for her.

[@danielowens4789]

I think Joe’s campaign was just as convincing.

[@MoopDong]

@@danielowens4789 im coming back to this one later for a smile :3

[@priyanshsharma9391]

Underrated

[@alicetookherpills]

@@danielowens4789 sure thing buddy

[@cosmonauteable9151]

Probably the same team running the Biden campaign. They even got dead cosmic particles to vote for the guy, I mean, senile old man.

[@KishoreS-x9d]

I want that particle to flip my life

[@potato_salad9346]

"Man, you suck at this game! Get good!" "Nah man, it was the cosmic particles"

[@lombridious]

Perfekt lol

[@norpriest521]

@DONT Why you need attention? Are you 5 yo?

[@arneshpal7702]

😂

[@JstormZx]

@@norpriest521 lol

[@auhsojacosta1672]

@Pahit Playz spend all of their money so that no one wins lol

[@aprilmintacpineda2713]

For us devs, this gives us hope, so when QAs file a bug that we can't replicate, we'll blame it on cosmic rays. Heck, often they themselves can't replicate it.

[@lukmanabdinasir7927]

Hahaha funniest comment ever

[@maki.tolentino]

LOL'ed more than I should have hahaha

[@GamesFromSpace]

The hard part is not blaming it for everything.

[@robotorfeed6806]

Was thinking to comment this, 100% agree.

[@icosagram]

@@emmaisalone ..?

[@3Black.1Red]

“My name is Sagittarius A and I endorse Maria for office.” How black holes sound, probably.

[@soyanshumohapatra]

😂😂 But only Legends can understand.

[@alex0589]

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

[@edwinjoy9]

This got me in tears! 😂😂😂😂

[@SocratesAlexander]

She is chosen by the Cosmos.

[@joseville]

Lol

[@hannahtgp9421]

12:00 turns out it was a loose cartridge

[@TylerBird03]

Got a source?

[@hannahtgp9421]

@TylerBird03 iirc Karl jobst or just look it up on yt

[@M8OfTheNorth]

Imagine being a particle shooting through space for billions of years only to help someone beat a level of Mario.

[@BRY0402]

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

[@ramikarandiv]

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

[@qbanz00]

“Insert can you hear the music soundtrack” 😂

[@The_Server_ong]

hhahhahahahahahhhAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHgha aHA HA HA HA

[@SubSilence]

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

[@katherinegarlock2249]

I love how the crash screen is just accepted as "the blue screen of death" even in more academic, professional settings.

[@Prestfon12345]

i want it to be actally renamed to blue screen of death than just blue screen. its such a satasfying word to say when the error itself is so frustrating.

[@lashlarue7924]

No, legit for real for real they call it, "BSOD" in the industry.

[@IC3XR]

Oh, humans.

[@k-aw-teksleepysageuni8181]

Yeah, it's a thing still because of big tech/engineer industry. You heard the NASA guy, a BSOD means your mission is dead. Same thing with aeronautics, naval, and another other types of engineer or programmer. If your computer in the locked hull room of the nuclear reactor BSODS. You got a problem. So while to us common folk it might just be an easy crash, and restart situation, there is PLENTY of situations in "industry" that a "crash" means you might actually crash a plane full of people and thus cause death. Making it the Blue Screen OF DEATH.

[@k-aw-teksleepysageuni8181]

and for good reason. ':D

[@Steefanari]

3:07 Veritasium: "...or do they?" *Vsauce song starts playing in my head

[@blandscaperr]

Lol, same

[@jeffsanti]

Same 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rajahasanmaroko5169]

Im the 170 like

[@enderguardian7443]

varisaucium

[@lakshya5049]

Same 😂

[@RespecterAlexander]

What a great Veritasium video!

[@chrisfromsouthaus2735]

Imagine being such a good candidate that the Universe itself votes for you

[@BluePiano1]

@Sleepy Carl no, if you pay attention in the video, they said that it WASN'T because of the uranium because the computer that calculated the votes was made after intel stopped using the defective casings

[@NotSoMuchFrankly]

Aha! So the universe cheats!

[@wallabra]

The Universe is worth 4096 people, gotcha

[@winninginlife]

That's what I was thinking, she's probably the Best choice lol

[@russellsherry7]

😄👍

[@MrBlitzpunk]

I'd imagine those passengers were freaking out seeing this random guy onboard with his geiger counter constantly making noises

[@Yamyatos]

I thought the same haha

[@badrequest5596]

turns out the random guy with the geiger counter was kyle hill from because science

[@bezahltersystemtroll5055]

the urge to start shouting "Allahu akbar" must have been incredible

[@d5kenn]

This episode was simply masterful storytelling. It took an esoteric topic, and made it educational, approachable, and genuinely fascinating to watch and learn. Thank you for creating it.

[@megapunchboy]

Total level creation

[@BillAnt]

Like all of Derick's videos. ;)

[@uncletrashero]

food for thought: our brains are computers... does this explain a lot?

[@BillAnt]

​@@uncletrashero - More food for thought.... Is the human brain a binary/digital or analog computer? Hmm....

[@uncletrashero]

@@BillAnt as i understand it, the brain is both analog and digital. most (99%) processing is done in analog, and data is stored partially in combination of analog and digital (digital record of analog nodes), but data is collated and transmitted primarily in digital

[@JanLeoDeAsis]

18:13 so that’s what that is! I usually do play a game with this, this is the game, i have to not move my eyes with eyes closed while pushing them in place until the light finally flashes away and in return i get a daydream of what i am imagining

[@smileystuff261]

The video is saying when you're in space that's when the flashes happen. Sounds like you're experiencing something else

[@salkohajric9641]

Me losing another game: "Those rays again, I swear..."

[@laddaleangthong2684]

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

[@apollyon10]

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

[@ahmedexmor]

That's my newest excuse and conversation starter

[@raceabilene]

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

[@aestheticvibezz142]

But It will be hard to explain your teammates 😏

[@LurkerPatrol]

I appreciate that Veritasium shows how these astronomical events affect things outside of astronomy. Even though I'm an astronomer and know all the physics behind this and routinely observe CRs in data, I can watch the episode and learn something new. Thanks Derek!

[@elisabethwittner5539]

As an astronomer, you should‘ve been the one to realize that victor hess forgot to stay 8 minutes in the same position with his balloon and THEN carefully watch his instruments. Not i, the since 8 years jobless isnogood.

[@pramilashaktawat4429]

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

[@glensalch3156]

How do we see Venus in our night sky on Earth? Do we see the Sun at night? Nooooo.....because rotation doesn't transport celestial bodies throughout space!!! So would you care to explain that please? And don't get too comfy with an answer.....I have alot more questions than that!!!

[@elisabethwittner5539]

@@glensalch3156 we don‘t see the sun at night because the definition of „night“ is „opposed side to the sun“….nice troll-try tho, made me lol :p

[@glensalch3156]

@@elisabethwittner5539 yes...and that's my whole point. Thanks for globetarding it though!!! When I said, "do we see the Sun at night?" I was being sarcastic. I even stated Noooo..... as conformation of sarcasm. We're talking about Venus anyway. In which you so eloquently pointed out......should be on opposing side of Earth's night sky, just the same as the Sun.

[@MichelConrado1]

The perfect bug excuse every programmer has been waiting for. Thank you!

[@timothyleblanc9769]

It can only be used for non-reproducible bugs though. So I'm still screwed...

[@MichelConrado1]

@@timothyleblanc9769 haha indeed.

[@vktr17]

@@timothyleblanc9769 I had a situation today, a config parameter flipped from true to false after a docker build. Never seen this before. Hard to tell what caused it: a fault in software (VM, linux, docker), hardware or cosmic radiation. Or maybe I screwed it up? But I can't see how. It'd be interesting to know the probabilities of each.

[@muradm7748]

@@vktr17 99% is you, 99% of left 1% is you from the past. Rest you can calculate yourself :D

[@PsychonautTV]

while this is funny, bugs have to be repeatable though.

[@rosariograsso1659]

Just gonna say that the blue screen of death at the end there scared the crap out of me!

[@theprimordialtv1310]

This really puts into context the failures of the robots deployed after the Chernobyl disaster. Bitflipped to death.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

An EXCELLENT point.

[@dominicsimon]

Thats actually........ yeah thats one of those how didnt I think about that until I read it comments

[@ClementinesmWTF]

That’s also kinda what happened to the poor souls that were deployed immediately after the disaster; their DNA started “flipping bits”-commonly called “radiation poisoning”

[@tonnylins]

@@ClementinesmWTF that wasn't just their dna flipping bits, more like the majority of atoms in their bodies being bombarded and messed with. Terrible way to die.

[@ClementinesmWTF]

@@tonnylins well yes, also that, but the radiation messing with the atoms in DNA and proteins is what radiation poisoning is. It’s essentially an absolutely horrifying organic analogy to technological bit-flipping.