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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have you considered being like a mother to your actual fucking children
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Cat paws anatomy studies ~
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griddlehark, in bed the kiss
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I’ve made more bugs. They’re friends
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at my sketchbook. straight up “drawing it”. and by “it”, haha, well. let’s justr say. Nothing
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bucket time~~
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Hi stephanie,
I hope this email finds you, as the search and rescue team is otherwise completely out of ideas
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matching shirts for you and the bestie
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