just my place to scream into the void about whatever fandom I'm obsessed with at the moment (mainly star trek, dw, good omens and ofmd) and reblog everything I ever see. Imma tag the posts about what's happening in the middle east as "Israel-Gaza war", stay safe guys
I hate when you're looking for something and folks are like "oh I'm sure it's somewhere." well aye that's sort of the base assumption for most things but cheers. big help
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.
yeah i recognised you by your footsteps because of the weird gay shit i feel for you but also because they're loud as fuck like man you sound like a hog hunting for truffles through the undergrowth
Aziraphale and Crowley are important to me because they are true advocates of doing the bare minimum. Too many TV protagonists out there that would literally die for their jobs and I simply cannot relate