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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

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“When Scar fell, so did the first drop of rain.”

The moment he died, the desert was brought to life for the first time since the beginning.

The smell of petrichor had never brought a more bittersweet sense of relief, nor a heavier sadness.”

#art #poem

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This is Maggie's worm collection

She loves her worms more than any other toy. She plays with them loads and carries them around the house

At night the worms have to go in a box so that she doesn't wake me up playing with them. So every evening before bed I gather up the worms, put them in their box and have Maggie say goodnight to them.

Night night worms!

#cat

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i am exactly 3,527 days late with this meme

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Spaceparents Per Episode In Order [4/?]

Season 1, Episode 3 – Bastille Day

#laura roslin #bill adama #mary mcdonnell #edward james olmos #battlestar galactica #bsg #roslin x adama

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body paintings by Karen Turner

#art

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#fanfiction #unfinshinished #....or cliffhangers i guess

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#Bedtime stories #I tell myself #to feel

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LOL

#existential horror #to watch

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I was watching this video about the usage of tar in history (it’s in Polish and without subs, sorry), and this part spoke to me

#video about the usage of tar #also about how skill is learned #practice is important

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*gets great responsibility but not great power* this suuuuuucks

#the-disemvolweler

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Nothing like a trip to the uncanny valley to boost your mood

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me when i meet the person who created webp files

#webpg #formats #png #how

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me when i meet the person who created webp files

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the best trope in media is: “characters turn on the lights, see the monster, and immediately turn the lights back off”