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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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THE X-FILES (1993-2018) S01E10 ‘Fallen Angel'

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Buon 25 aprile e viva l'Italia antifascista 🇮🇹

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Oggi e sempre ✊

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25 aprile 1945, Liberazione d’Italia dal nazifascismo

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Relaxing 🌊💙

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I'm begging you all to go watch this movie you will not regret it

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First screenshots from Gloria!, first upcoming fiilm co–written and directed by Margherita Vicario. It will premiere on February 2024 and is pending for the Golden Bear of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival.

It is late 18th century in Venice, and in a convent school for girls Teresa, a girl with prophetic gifts, joins forces with some amazing music-makers. They create a new kind of music that is pop, bright and bold, and challenge the ancient and rigid system.

Film description on IMDb and swissfilms commission

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Oddio voglio rivedere questo film 60 volte

#Guess who just watched gloria

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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers 💗

Ooops I keep forgetting to answer this sorry bestie

Amyway:

1) painting at the park

2) museums!!! Love spending soooo much time staring at every single thing (sorry friend I managed to drag along)

3) walking around the harbour in my home town

4) playing the guitar (badly)

5) horses

#Look I got an ask!!! #So happy

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People keep inviting me to go on trips and I a) don't have the money for it cause I spent all of my savings to book the tall ships races again or b) the trip is free but it's in 2 weeks and I can't skip lab since it's the only compulsory attendance I have for the whole degree

#personal #Yes friend I'd love to go to Morocco with you but with what money? #And yes other friend going to Oxford with you for free sounds amazing if only my lab activities weren't in the middle of it #Ok other other friend that thing you invited me to sounded more like another attempt at finding me a partner but I appreciate the sentiment

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Flea market find

#personal #Love this so much

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A cow study in watercolour.

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I always thought it was like an exaggeration when horse people would talk about how silly it was for anyone to think that riding a horse does not require any particular level of skill or balance or anything, or even that they "drive themselves" (???) but just the tags on the reblogs of that "can you ride a bike and/or horse" post from me alone are demonstrating how overconfident some people are in their (often entirely theoretical!) ability to stay on an alive and moving animal with a will of its own.