As a geeky kid, logic gates nearly broke me. AND, OR, NAND, NOR… I could just about wrap my head around them, but only just. I eventually got it but had I seen the description in the epic trilogy The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin then I might have got it much quicker. In the book, there is a beautifully described scene where millions of soldiers are arranged across a vast plain and made to act as human logic gates, physically forming a living, breathing computer. It makes what researchers at Georgia Tech have just achieved feel even more remarkable. What has that got to do with space. Think about the last time your phone crashed and you lost something important. Annoying, right? Now imagine that happening 640 million km from Earth, on a spacecraft exploring Jupiter's moons, with no repair crew coming and a communication delay measured in hours. Suddenly, reliable data storage isn't just convenient, it’s everything. Artist's rendering of NASA's Galileo spacecraft flying past Jupiter's moon Io.…