Solar Bitflip Sort is a joke sorting algorithm that relies on cosmic particles colliding with transistors in a memory node to randomly flip an array of bits into a miraculously sorted arrangement. But how long would it actually take to sort an array? A 1996 study by IBM found that their machines experienced about 1 bit flip per 256 MB of RAM per month, or $5.5 * 10^{-9}$ flips per bit per year.
