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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.

#space #voyager 1 #r

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Here’s my Barrissoka version of that novel cover that’s been trending over at Twitter.

#star wars #ahsoka tano #barriss offee #clone wars #barrissoka

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oh btw reminder for monday!

even if it’s obscured by the moon!! it’s the quality of light rather than only the quantity—even during an eclipse sunlight is very high energy and looking directly at it will burn your retinas and can cause permanent vision loss!! so don’t do it unless you have proper eyewear!!!

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shoutout to Trigun: Badlands Rumble incidental background Sexful Gonk Droid for being the best fucking character in anime

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Damn these ships going crazy

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just remembered shows used to have 20-25 eps per season

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force ghost dooku, also known as leia's professional shoulder devil

#leia organa #count dooku #swot #star wars

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine "Past Tense, Pt. 1"

#star trek deep space nine #ds9 #star trek #bernardo calvera #benjamin sisko

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Doctor Who Unleashed I 1.03 - The Giggle

#doctor who #david tennant #ncuti gatwa

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#Can't stop thinking about Ncuti getting drunk and telling everyone he's The Doctor

#doctor who #matt smith #ncuti gatwa

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Early choreography rehearsal of Anakin vs Ahsoka fight⚔️

#star wars #ahsoka series #hayden christensen #ariana greenblatt

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#doctor who #10th doctor #david tennant

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when i learned jedi kids r raised communally i suddenly understood the anakin | obi wan conflict so much better omg its only child vs kid with like 8 siblings. obi wan is like anakin ur so fckn stupid (smiles fondly) and anakin is like he thinks im stupid 😡

#star wars #obi wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #jedi order

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Jenkins: “Spectres are always surviving unbeatable odds. Just like you on Akuze!”

Sole survivor Shepard:

#mass effect #commander shepard #mass effect 1 #me1

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A nonhuman character in heavy makeup: *is very long*

Me: is that you, Doug

The credits: Freaky Creature played by Doug Jones

Me: YEAHHHH

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Rannoch

Keelah se-lai “by the home world I hope to see one day”

#mass effect #mass effect 3 #tali’zorah vas normandy #digging this out of my drafts #mass effect edit #mass effect reapers