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Wilson + making House smile

I like you. I have fun with you.

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I'm sorry but "He means well" as Speirs' senior superlative sent me looking for his high school yearbook.

HE MEANS WELL?

And 18 year old Sparky, first row fourth man from left.

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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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Okay, now, there's no need for threats...

Genuinely considering disregarding ethics and having EOS pretend to be me for a few hours so that I can get some proper sleep.

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Thanks, Squirt. But I can manage. You let me know if you need help with any of that homework, okay?

Genuinely considering disregarding ethics and having EOS pretend to be me for a few hours so that I can get some proper sleep.

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Remember last time? With Allie? I'm still finding scorch marks on the hull.

Genuinely considering disregarding ethics and having EOS pretend to be me for a few hours so that I can get some proper sleep.

#thunderbirds rp

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Genuinely considering disregarding ethics and having EOS pretend to be me for a few hours so that I can get some proper sleep.

#thunderbirds rp #open prompt btw #john tracy #thunderbirds 2015

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This is making me hungry.

Kayo is like the best big sister ever.

She shared her tub of ice cream with me, there's not much more that you could ask for in a sister.

#thunderbirds rp

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For those of you who weren’t able to get 100% of the total solar eclipse today… I gotchu <3

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nasa: we're going to shoot three rockets directly at the sun during the total eclipse. for study and research purposes.

me: oh cool

nasa: we have named the rockets apep. this stands for atmospheric perturbations [in the] eclipse path.

me: oh cool

nasa: apep is also the ancient egyptian deity of chaos and darkness, who ceaselessly seeks to extinguish the sun. we launch these rockets directly at the sun in the name of apep.

me: oh... cool?

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NO OTHER PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM GETS TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES!! THE SIZE AND DISTANCE OF OUR MOON FROM EARTH AND THE SUN MAKE THE PERFECT CIRCUMSTANCES TO GET TOTALITY!!! THE EARTH AND MOON ARE SOOOO COOL AND OF COURSE OUR SUN!! I LOVE LIVING ON EARTH I LOVE YOU EARTH I LOVE YOUUUUU MOON I LOVE YOU SUN

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Jupiter in Ultraviolet from ESA/Hubble

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Launch of Apollo 7 l October 11, 1968 l the first crewed flight in Apollo program

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Blood Scars of Europa

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Apollo 4 liftoff, 9 Nov. 1967.

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Penumbral shadow.

(March 25, 2024).

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love is the fabric of the universe.

vladmir nabokov in a 1926 letter to his wife véra // la traviata, giuseppe verdi // the antennae galaxies in the midst of colliding, x // speak, memory, vladimir nabokov // heart and soul nebulae, x // interstellar (2014), dir. christopher nolan // divan i shams, rumi