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Basically there's no proof
I watched this a while ago so I can't remember everything, but I think essentially it boils down to someone having suggested the idea that it could have been a cosmic ray and the idea was propogated by memes and YouTubers as fact, even though there's no proof and the odds of it being a cosmic ray are astronomically small, pun intended.
Thanks, I just remember the Bounty and then later Veritasium also doing a video about cosmic rays. I remember the chances actually being surprisingly high, considering how much memory is actually used nowadays and wondering why it hasn't happened much more in different systems. So I waved it off due to ECC etc. taking effect most of the time. This is certainly true, but I probably also got the numbers wrong. So I'm also gonna watch Veritasiums video again more critically now and do some research. It's a very interesting topic for me.
I think it was confirmed that a single bit flip could have produced that effect, but it's a huge leap to say it must have been cosmic rays. It could just be a hardware fault.