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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The only time I’ve ever saluted someone on instinct was when Vinny was playing mgs4 and he found out if you shook the controller while calling rose her boobs would shake and he immediately called otacon and you could physically hear him shaking the controller and asking “why aren’t his tits moving ”
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guy sitting in front of me in class was vandalizing wikipedia and i kept reverting his edits as soon as he made them and he couldn't figure out why it was happening
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I could NOT be in feudal Japan. Here are some reasons why
I wasn’t born then.
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mlp roleplay [18+ only]
*rarity smiles mischievously* dont look so surprised to find me here… ive been waiting for you
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fun fact: in the twilight movies instead of burning up in sunlight the vampires actually jsut sparkle. to learn more look up twilight sparkle on google
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girl who wont shut up about how she "loves a man in uniform" but as she keeps talking it becomes clear she's talking about butches in customer service jobs
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