No I get what you are saying, the thing is that the cosmic ray bit flip fits the razor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray
Studies by IBM in the 1990s suggest that computers typically experience about one cosmic-ray-induced error per 256 megabytes of RAM per month.
It isn't unlikely for it to have happened on non-ECC hardware. I think they even replicated what happened in the video in an emulator with a single bit flip, so it really just boils down to "what are the chances someone recorded while a bit flip did something noteworthy", and the odds are.... pretty big actually, over so mamy years.
To be honest I kinda suspect you've done no effort to fact check this but are just going with your gut feeling? I don't mind discussing this further, but if so I'd really like to hear what your point is, because if it is that: a) cosmic bit flips doesn't happen or b) a bit flip couldn't have impacted the game like that then I think you're better off watching that video I linked or actually read up on the subject because my impression is that if you apply occam's razor to that mario64 incident... a bit flip is all that's on the table.
for the cost of doing that, it'd probably be better to invest the time and resources in a new satellite all together. it's kinda the same dilemma as the Wait Calculation
Veratisium did a good video about it. https://youtu.be/AaZ_RSt0KP8?si=mR7B5V4qIlhTF0Gc
if you think it's unbelievable, then the video is probably worth a watch
good meme post, just wanna share a viewpoint tht I think some people may not be aware: As a consequence of the war, oil and gas from Russia stopped, and that accounted for not only a big part of the electricity generation, but especially that part that is used to cover peak electrical consumption, ie mornings and dinnertime. in the EU at least, electricity prices change by the hour. and the grid is interconnected between countries, and many countries have had their own energy-struggles, like in Germany where proponents of nuclear energy had gotten the power to phase it all out, made them reliant on importing power.
so the spikes in energy bills were real tough. Your electricity bill being multiples of 10 more expensive ...makes memes, at least