My doll blog is Zzazuooak / my art blog is zz-arts / instagram is @pinkzzazu.She/Her They/Them (both are totally fine)/ I like cute things and astronauts
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.
Oh my god your the creator of the Howl pegging comic. I remember seeing it dubbed on YouTube and it being the reason I was properly introduced to Gihbli. Thank you so very much, I would have never watched Howl’s moving castle without it!!!
shout out to the patient I called to remind to pick up their medication, whose voicemail message was “HEWWO? HEWWO?? WHO IS THIS??? WEAVE A MESSAGE” that rang out throughout the whole pharmacy, killing me instantly
I hate it when people say they want a weirdguy boyfriend. it’s like they don’t even know that we rounded up all the weird guys and locked them in the Washington D.C. natural history museum overnight to let the big elephant kill them