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.
went into this trying to find similarities between the haunting of hill house and mabel and i found them contradicting each other in subtle but curious ways
happy 413 everyone!! 15 years felt like a significant number so i wanted to do push myself to do smthg over the top for this one haha
this comic has had me in a chokehold for over 10 years waow.. still lookin forward to see what comes from the new team! anyway happy anniversary sweethearts <333
Knowing she won’t be answered, Cassandra begs: “Kill me.”
The words come out and Cassandra understands them not by the tongue that speaks them, but by how Clytemnestra covers up the breaking of her voice by dropping into a whisper, and how the blade’s tip moves, waveringly, to the ground.
birthday fanart for @diasparagmos of their hauntingly gorgeous Clytemnestra/Cassandra fic, Misericord! good classics fanfic is always hard to come by and my friend knocked it out of the damn park :’)