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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.

#NASA #Voyager 1 #programmers #software engineering #damned impressive #technology #space

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This is my favorite thing of the entire week

when you multiply a number by another number, do you change the original number, or is it a new number

like 5 times 2 is 10, right

is that 10 the same guy as that 5 or is it a different one

discuss

#math #maths #prime numbers #numbers #multiplication

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this may be the greatest thing in history, or at least this month

#foghorn leghorn #looney tunes #Dragonball #dragonball z #crossovers

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It should be illegal to require that any device or software connect to the internet just to run. I shouldn't need to log in with microsoft to open any of their programs on my local computer. All games should be playable without access to an online server. All media you pay for should be downloadable to local disk as a raw file and if they don't like that because they know you'll share it and upload it, tough shit. They took your money already, they'll live.

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#april 25 #the perfect date #Shatner #William Shatner

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Just sayin', not all of us are like that. Some of us find this just as awful and embarrassing as you do.

Too tired to draw but I still need everyone to be aware of this bizarre interaction I had at work this morning

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There is *nothing* like Tumblr anywhere else in the known Universe

funny phrases to use when something goes wrong instead of jokingly saying "i'm going to kms":

i'm going to kill god

i'm going to delete my blog

i'm going to explode

i'm going to blow up this entire website

i'm going to become the joker

this is going to be my villain origin story

feel free to add on

#homestuck #Tumblr #soup bowls #xkcd

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Wall-E (2008)

#Pixar #wall e

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#fishing #fish

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reblog if your blog is a safe space for ghouls and goblins

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#cats #books #libraries

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#funny #fish #fish funeral

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#animals #baby animals #deer #fawn #fawns

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#funny #puns #bad puns

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This feels like the pilot of the reboot of Cheers

Little boy standing in the stroller just looked around the crowded coffee shop, pointed at me and asked his mom "What's HIS name" and his mom said "I don't know!" and he asked me "What's YOUR name" and I called back "I'm Al" across the whole coffee shop and he went "HI AL!"

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Crimson Marsh Glider (Trithemis aurora), male, family Libellulidae, Langkawi, Malaysia

photograph by Nick Volpe

#dragonfly #glider #trithemis #libellulidae #odonata #insect #entomology #animals #nature #asia