Mission to Mars - Rolex Space Dweller Vs Omega X33 Skywalker

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The Space, it is the ultimate challenge mankind faced. mother Earth sent Astronauts, Cosmonauts, Taikonauts and Spationauts to conquer the vast emptiness of the Space.

It is a brutal environment consisting of dangers like cosmic rays, extreme cold and heat, fast particles and radiation.

We build our defensive measures like, radiation shields, better hull designs and climate control systems.

The Space is not just a danger for our species it is also the worst nightmare for our equipment, no matter how tough we built them yet they got chewed up by the evil darkness.

The most insidious and dangerous of them all is the Cosmic Rays. The discovery of the cosmic rays was made about 110 years ago.

"In 1911 and 1912 Austrian physicist Victor Hess made a series of ascents in a hydrogen balloon to take measurements of radiation in the atmosphere. He was looking for the source of ionizing radiation that registered on an electroscope – the prevailing theory was that the radiation came from the rocks of the Earth.

To test the theory, in 1909 German scientist Theodor Wulf measured the rate of ionization near the top of the Eiffel tower (at a height of about 300 metres) using a portable electroscope. Though he expected the ionization rate to decrease with height, Wulf noted that the ionization rate at the top was just under half that at ground level – a much less significant decrease than anticipated.

Victor Hess was one person to go further by taking electroscopes up in a balloon. In 1911 his balloon reached an altitude of around 1100 metres, but Hess found "no essential change" in the amount of radiation compared with ground level. Then, on 7 August 1912, in the last of seven flights that year, Hess made an ascent to 5300 metres. There he found the rate of ionization was some three times that at sea level and concluded that penetrating radiation was entering the atmosphere from above. In an earlier flight he had found no noticeable drop during a partial solar eclipse, so he could rule out the Sun as the source. Hess had in fact discovered a natural source of high-energy particles: cosmic rays." Cern



I can hear some of you asking hack "What can cosmic rays do to astronauts?"

The scientist whom working on the effects of long space flight examined this phenomenan extensively.

The rays can sometimes penetrate our skull and reach our optic nerve system. The particle can be registered as lighting on our optical nerve system Early Spaceman probably kept this as a secret however i the early 2000s Nasa Science team confirmed these rays and its effect on the astronauts.

While this might be the least dangerous of the effects, the cosmic rays can damage our brains beyond repair.

Well its not over yet these tiny rays can also be dangerous to our equipment such as the Computers.

13th Bit - The Bit Flip of Death

What is a bit? According the Wikipedia

The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit.[1] The bit represents a logical state with one of two possible values. These values are most commonly represented as either "1" or "0", but other representations such as true/false, yes/no, +/−, or on/off are also commonly used.

The Cosmic Rays can hit the Central processing unit of the computers and flip the Zeros to Ones and opposite.

This can create all kind of dangerous scenarios we can think of, in one case a flight computer of a commercial jet got hit by a cosmic ray and the plane started to nose down, fortunately pilots restart the system and save the lifes of the passengers on board.

"Nasa in the Shuttle program used 4 flight computers checking each other to counter the effects of bit flip."

CUT THE CHASE BRO COME TO THE WATCHES!!!!!!!

The Watches in todays world are separated in 2 main groups

The Mechanical and the Digital.

In the 60s and 70s when the space race hits its peak Mechanical watches were the first choice of the Nasa and Soviet space programs.

Later with the digital revolution, we saw the Casios,Seikos and Omega Skywalkers on the missions.

Than in the mids of the 90s space agencies started using wrist computers

Now with he commercialisation of the space we are seeing new players like Space X setting their course to the MARS.

This voyage will have its own challenges, like cosmic rays and bit flips.

The scientist and engineers always think a head and try to oversee the potential problems and find solutions to overcome it.

The bit flip is a serious issue for the mission.

Nightmare Scenerio

An Astronaut conducting time critical operation and all of a sudden a cosmic ray hitting their digital watch and corrupt the data shown on the screen, things can go ugly in aa eyes blink.

The engineers found the solution - Rolex Space Dweller.

What is you Solution? Which will you trust