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April 2024 Pink Moon

ig - afternoondreams

#THE MOON

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Debugging Code 15 Billion Miles Away

NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again. The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between stars).

Voyager 1 stopped sending readable science and engineering data back to Earth on Nov. 14, 2023, even though mission controllers could tell the spacecraft was still receiving their commands and otherwise operating normally. In March, the Voyager engineering team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed that the issue was tied to one of the spacecraft’s three onboard computers, called the flight data subsystem (FDS). The FDS is responsible for packaging the science and engineering data before it’s sent to Earth.

The team discovered that a single chip responsible for storing a portion of the FDS memory — including some of the FDS computer’s software code — isn’t working. The loss of that code rendered the science and engineering data unusable. Unable to repair the chip, the team decided to place the affected code elsewhere in the FDS memory. But no single location is large enough to hold the section of code in its entirety.

So they devised a plan to divide the affected code into sections and store those sections in different places in the FDS. To make this plan work, they also needed to adjust those code sections to ensure, for example, that they all still function as a whole. Any references to the location of that code in other parts of the FDS memory needed to be updated as well.

The team started by singling out the code responsible for packaging the spacecraft’s engineering data. They sent it to its new location in the FDS memory on April 18. A radio signal takes about 22 ½ hours to reach Voyager 1, which is over 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, and another 22 ½ hours for a signal to come back to Earth. When the mission flight team heard back from the spacecraft on April 20, they saw that the modification worked: For the first time in five months, they have been able to check the health and status of the spacecraft.

#nasa #voyager 1

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“Miss Rhode Island, please describe your idea of a perfect date.”

“That's a tough one. I'd have to say April 25th. Because it's not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket.”

#ms. congeniality #april 25

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More old gravity falls stuff cuz ppl seem to like these :3

#gravity falls #stanford pines #bill cipher #soos ramirez #giffany #eyestrain #WOW!

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A Bold Bluff When you’re an evil mastermind but the weird dumbass pharmacist outsmarted you

#megamind #phineas and ferb #dr. doofenshmirtz #mojo jojo #powerpuff girls #kim possible #drakken #looney tunes coyote #love the concept! #and also love how this feels reminiscent of a black-light painting (color wise)

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start somewhere

#gravity falls #stanford pines #stanley pines #sea grunks! #IN A STEW (it's plainly labelled) #(10 points to anyone who recognizes THAT line) #(orig posted Sept 2016)

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Preserving the original tags on this one:

#I like that fanon doesn't skirt too close to the goofus and gallant zone with these two #they are demonstrably both goofus #but different problems have different solutions etc etc.

hold that thought

#gravity falls #stanford pines #stanley pines #sea grunks! #faves #(orig posted Sept 2016)

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My favorite episode from season 2 so far.

#the owl house #eda the owl lady #king owl house #luz noceda #oh the cuteness!

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I am CONSIDERING making a follow-up video to my Gravity Falls AU fandom deep-dive analysis from last year.

AUs covered in the 2023 video include: Timestuck AU, Monster Falls AU, Reverse Falls AU, Relativity Falls AU, Transcendence AU, Blind Faith (and Reverse Portal) AU, Drifting Stars (and Grifting Stars) AU, and the One of Us AU.

I'm thinking about making a follow-up covering any AUs I missed, though it depends on interest. Also, I intend to focus on AUs that were a collaboration, like Monster Falls or Timestuck and Blind Faith, where multiple people wrote and drew for it.

Leave a reply below if you can think of an AU that I missed.

Again, NO PROMISES that I will make a follow-up. I'm just thinking about it.

#gravity falls #AUs #lighthouse keeper au #1920s au #zero gravity au #immoral pines au #same coin theory #frankenstein au #crystal pines au #universe falls au #tumblr polls

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Bros always will support each other!! I needed to color something wholesome! Muah, have a nice day! <3

#gravity falls #stanford pines #stanley pines #sea grunks! #aroace Ford #<3 <3 <3

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

#miss congeniality #april 25 #the perfect date #(i did need a light jacket today)

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I dunno man, I have a problem.

The first picture is pretty much a redraw of this frame from the show:

#gravity falls #stanford pines #cycloptopus #seeing this sweater never gets old #i love it put into THIS scene

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“Different mood. Different feels. Different locations.” by | Jay Johnson

Mt Rainier / Mt Tamalpais / Oregon Coast

#sunsets #oregon #mt. rainier #mt. tamalpais #tahoma

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Human-sized hamster ball!

#gravity falls #mabel pines

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#frogs #audio #ahh the sound of spring

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this is the funniest goddamn joke in gravity falls to me.  what is the point.  literally what.  there is no set up.  there is no punchline.  he just says “i found it while i was here… practicing” and the footage cuts to mabel filming him on the middle of a fucking island playing a tuba that has never previously been mentioned before he shouts “LOOK, A GIANT TOOTH” i am fucking crying about this goddamn cartoon thiS IS NOT EVEN FUNNY THIS IS A GENIUS SHOW WITH GENIUS WRITING AND BETTER JOKES THAN ANYTHING ON TV RIGHT NOW AND I AM LAUGHING AT THIS 12 YEAR OLD PLAYING A RANDOM FUCKING TUBA WITH THIS RIDICULOUS FUCKING LOOK ON HIS FACE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE IM GOING TO SHIT THE

#gravity falls #dipper pines #meta #(orig posted Nov 2014) #and you know what? even after the show is all done and years later #this STILL is worth mentioning as one of the best jokes in the series #(it's from the shorts for those who aren't as familiar with those #Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained)

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Luigi Lucioni (American/Italian, 1900-1988)

“The Three Graces” 1949 

 oil on canvas

#art #landscapes