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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.

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who’s gonna tell tumblr that executive dysfunction is more than Not Doing Things?

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Pointing out that the Rapture as a concept is a little less than two hundred years old - it's originally from the 1833 - that really buries the lede on how recent it is. Bc the modern evangelical take on the Rapture is from a book published in 1970. That predicted the Rapture would happen no later than 1988.

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it's fucking me up how tv shows, movies, and even video games can't be "niche" content anymore

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This was the funniest hour of my life

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you believe in armed resistance? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, being an idiot in the notes of a random ukrainian on tumblr

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To be Ukrainian means to be constantly indignant and at least a bit suicidal

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I like the expression new-fangled. I don't know what it means for something to be fangled, but I sure as hell know it was recent

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literally wake up some nights in a cold sweat thinking about this

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ukrainian power in the world resides in our elegant and effective ways of cyber bullying

#jackal express goes choo-choo

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Scenery in Scorn 03/??

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Me: of course I love having friends, social anxiety who?

Also me, when my friends don't reply to me within like 5 minutes: I'm going to die alone and forgotten, in my dusty den of sorrow

#personal

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warm orange windows and blue night in the background save me. save me warm orange windows and blue night

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genuinely so tired of the male love interest in every m/f romance being the most hugelarge tallman to ever growth spurt. I need to see some women swooning over little five foot five rat dudes who need to be tucked in their gf's pocket lest they blow away like a napkin in the wind.

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hey, can we talk for a second? it’s about your girlfriend. yeah, she’s great. no, yeah, I agree. It’s just that… she seems really devoted to you? Like really devoted. Almost as if you were the sole, fragile line mooring her to the shores of humanity. No, that’s not romant—ugh. Listen. Me and the girls, we’re worried you might be the last good thing to happen to her and that were some tragedy to inevitably befall you, she would tear the gods from their thrones and dye the infinite western seas wine-dark with their ichor. Do you think you could introduce her to a new hobby or something? we don’t want to have to argue over what color “wine-dark” is supposed to be