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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.

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pavizi

harley/ivy design brainstorming

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morallygrayautisticscientist

Adrian: WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY BEAUTIFUL MATE QUESTION?!

Grace: I swear I didn’t teach him this! I promise!

Adrian: LOOK AT WHAT YOU’VE DONE!

Rocky: Watch me macarena statement. My hands are in the air as if I simply do not care. I have also learned the whip and, additionally, the nay-nay.

Adrian: I’M CALLING A DOCTOR.

Rocky: Observe the worm *hits the ground with an earth-shaking thwump and screeches along the floor*

courtesycalling

Thompson's new outfit

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luluquiq

I drew some flag deers for pride month !

Be proud of who you are !

you can use them if you credit me

darkmoonray

( ˘ ³˘)✿‧₊˚⊹⋆♡ the serial smoocher

dragoncarrion

Anytime i see a bunch of pride flags i have to restrain myself from saying "where mexico" bc i doubt anyone will know I'm referencing this

tortol

picture i got at pride last week; here mexico

ellie-insertsurnamehere

This is very dumb but hey

poetrylesbian

obviously dietary requirements aren't a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she's up to today and she said extremely seriously "ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia"