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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

#nasa

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More stories where romance is not the point but it is a point.

We’re on a quest and I’m liking you more and more.

I’m training to be a wizard and you’re training to be a knight and I hope I can convince you we should get married when we meet again.

We’ve got lives to live and this spaceship to fly and people to help and I love you.

I’m a king and you are my loyal companion who helped keep me alive long enough to take the throne I love you and that could become more than it is.

I trust your rule and I will protect you and I think I love you.

I’m a ruler and this marriage is for heirship and I’ve got a thousand other duties but you are passionate and intelligent and understanding and we could love each other.

The world is crumbling as we know it but we always intended to get married and why should we let this get in the way

We’re both busy fighting schemes and keeping alive but I love you let’s stay alive

Love is transformative but it’s everyday. It happens while you are living. It doesn’t take you away.

#yeah this #trying to write something vaguely like this #also this is earendil/elwing and finarfin/earwen to me #writing

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Kirk's version of the Kobayashi Maru was hacking the Starfleet simulator.

Spock's version of the Kobayashi Maru was hacking Leonard McCoy's brain.

#mccoy's version is just resurrecting people left right and centre #you lost because the patient died #nah man i just brought him back #< prev tags #his kobayashi maru is also injecting untested drugs into his own body to test them because they don't have time #leonard mccoy #spock #jim kirk #star trek

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Drumknott my beloved

#rufus drumknott #discworld #SOUP

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vetinari and drumknott taking a walk in the city!

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#havelock vetinari #rufus drumknott #them!!! #discworld

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the whole point of a zine is that it's cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you're being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than "my work can be reproduced as part of this publication" it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.

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epic aro sculpture i did for class

the heart is made out of plastic bags wrapped with tape, so it's squishy ^_^ and the knife is qtips hot glued together. the knife is also removable!

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I’m going to unlearn shame *bursts into tears and beats my head against a brick wall*

#spock

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how jingo went

close ups on his face, bc i like when hes holding on by a thread

#discworld #jingo #Vimes in Jingo is so fun #he's so sleep-deprived for the entire first half #and so done for the second half #I still think about the end a lot #with the counting down of the deaths and vetinari grabbing the crossbow bolt

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#discworld #gnu terry pratchett

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Now, in the clear light of the post-combat situation report I grant that it was perhaps not the most tactically efficient course to expend a once-per-mission cooldown and incur sufficient excess heat to melt my own reactor core twice over in order to inflict 45 points of damage upon a target with 8 HP, but I strongly feel any assessment of the soundness of my decision should take into account that fucker had it coming.

#me blowing up an entire room because it was the first way I thought of to get out

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okay what did i miss

(yes some of these overlap and some are suppositions. for example if parchment is always used for ephemera, rough drafts, notes, and never re-used or re-purposed, we can also assume that the author is unaware of wax tablets as a concept)

#writing #writing reference #to read

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I don’t remember where this story was from but it was about how the writers older brother died when he was young and years later had a son who, had never met the brother had the same mannerisms as him. Ok I think I remember the key words were “my son drinks from the water fountain like my brother” or something

#poetry

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#Death and Ysabell

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oh fuck this is a really good hill i gotta die on this

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murderbot.

#the murderbot diaries #it!!!