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welcome to the cotkey ride home for Friday, October 9th, 2020.

I'm Jackson Bird.

What kind of operating system do they use in space?

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Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Have you ever thought about what operating system is used on spacecrafts?

I'll admit I hadn't really thought of it before, but what I really hadn't thought of before

was just how precise those operating systems have to be.

I mean, you know, obviously they have to be precise.

It is space. There's a million

things that could go wrong. One tiny error can mean that the multi-million dollar craft that

hundreds of people have spent years working on gets burnt to a crisp. Or in the case of crude

missions, it's the literal difference between life and death. So yes, precision and top-of-the-line

systems are key. And a recent article in Ars-Technica detailed just how precise the operating

systems are, especially when it comes to speed. So first, let's think about the processing speed

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