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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.

#this is like an impromptu e-amputation #incredible

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Heres my concept art for what it would be like if Pathologic (2005) had a Whataburger in it 

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A slice of pizza, four slices of watermelon, a ham sandwich, a buttered roll with honey and cinnamon, and a nice tall glass of water

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My sylladex would resemble a foraging toy for dogs

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OH. BOY. Im gonna make some hedge-hog stew. To-day. It's my favorite thing to do.

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Made the worst brownies ever created just now

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YAK FROLICKING!!!

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calvin onion suit

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They need to invent a guy dead on the floor emoji

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#cats

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CS majors when they have to write a program to print hello world by 11:59 (this is the most complex algorithm they've ever written) vs math majors handing in a solution to the three body problem (they came up with it on the walk to class)

#printf

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women love to eating paper

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We should stop romanticizing Britain and Japan and start being fucking obsessed with Philadelphia

#YEAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH