Yeah i have a dark past (being 13). Just an absolutely horrible backstory (being 13). It would keep you up at night if i told you about it (i was 13 one time)
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.
I asked my boyfriend in Canada once, how he deals with polar bears because I was curious about what to do and he was like, just be calm, let them know you’re there, and give them space and they’ll usually just go away.
outsider pov of middlesea hospital is something im actually quite curious about. like the hospital itself probably wouldn't register for 99% of people until act 5 (and you could probably argue the possibility of it starting to become more well known at around 3-2 or 3-x), but once it does, it ends up being so funny.
why, yes, this hospital is full of patients with various heart illnesses, including a very famous baseball player who is in for a muscle injury and yet also has heart problems. and, yes, this hospital uses an innovative rhythm-based defibrillation system to treat said patients. and this rhythm treatment is, of course, primarily operated by an intern connected by wi-fi signal who may or may not be a finger. and obviously, the patients have formed a baseball team that has beat an actual college team and every single person had to be treated during the game with the aforementioned rhythm based treatment which was also experiencing a massive surge in the mysterious program-specific virus