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 have one of those robot vacuums but there's a mirror in the house low enough to the ground that the lidar scanner can see a nonexistent room in the reflection so on the navigation map it's generated I have a room that doesn't exist that I have to forbid the vacuum from entering.
why yes i will be drinking a generous amount of beer tonight..... tenfold thimblefuls!! 🤣😝😁😛😜🤪😂🤣😂😃😅😀🙂😉😌🙂😐😮😮💨😯🤧😪😧🫨😵💫🤢🤮😣😰😨😱😵🫠🪰🪱💀🪳🐜🪱🪰🍄🟫🍄🌧️🌱🌿🍃🪵🌾🪻🌿🌱🌳🌲🌾🌲🛻💨😏🚬😮💨🥴🚬😏😮💨😶🌫️🤤🥱😴🚬🍃🌿💥🔥😶🌫️😧🔥🔥🌲🌳🔥🔥🌲🔥🔥😦🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
(did you catch the story at the end of the post? what can we learn about laughing too hard? have you ever laughed so hard your corpse spawned a forest that was later incinerated by the craven misdeeds of the Smoker?)
so my sister's dog is named communist gun, but we call him red. right? and every once in a while when she wants him to jump on someone she goes "red scare!" and recently ive been trying to get him to jump on people when i go "mccarthyism!" but it's not working yet