Effie, 28. His Dark Materials, multifandom most of the time. Obsessed with all things Agatha Christie and murder mysteries. Jonathan Bree's #1 fangirl. Gifmaker and Writer. Meta Masterpost pinned! Tracking: #usereffie.
me playing swtor: "I'll just grind this dumb game, no need for roleplay just running a playthrough by myself"
also me: that bleach blonde hair has got to have absorbed all the dirt and toxins after Balmorra and Quesh and jedi got no time to go get it done again so we gotta darken it
also me: Gotta put on warm clothes and hat for Hoth, you don't want you or your companion freezing to death
reylos crying on twitter because Adam Driver explicitly confirmed that Bendemption was never originally in the plans for Kylo....this is justice for the last 8 years, actually
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.
war of the foxes - richard silken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology
i love being a star wars fan. yes, i spend all my free time thinking about star wars. no, i don't know anything that happens there. yes, i have very extensive knowledge on coruscant lower-level fauna. no, i don't understand the timeline but objectively it's not even my fault. of course i've read through traviss' mado'a language guide and dictionary. does anyone understand hyperlanes. don't ask me about their military ranking system or i will jump out of the window