the fact they’re able to reprogram a space probe built in the 70s that’s millions of miles away is just insane to me. but then iphones and other modern tech stops working and needs to be replaced like every year lmao

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.

A PALESTINIAN CITIZEN AND HIS DOG FROM GAZA RAISES THE VICTORY SIGN FROM INSIDE HIS DESTROYED HOME. X

This is yuri.

This bloodbath has gone on for far too long. At the start of this aggression, the school year had barely just started. The academic year ends in just a month. Everyone, from first graders to university seniors, have lost an entire year at least. I say at least considering even if there is a ceasefire today, Israel had destroyed literally all universities in Gaza and damaged over 400 schools. Lest we forget also Israel's deliberate targeting of university professors and academics.

You absolutely cannot mistake the intent behind all of this.

Mumia Abu-Jamal addressing the CUNY Gaza solidarity encampment.

went to my first protest today! big support to the socialist alternative party and other union groups that organized it. im so glad to see so many amazing people here and be a part of something truly important. make sure to support your local socialist parties and unions as much as you can. we must stand against the Palestinian genocide and force our representatives to divest the billions of hard-working peoples’ dollars away from the cycle of violence and use it to actually benefit our society. think of all the housing, education, and healthcare that could be funded with all that war money! shame on you, state representatives. you do not reflect the values of working people, our unions, and our comrades in Palestine and the greater word.🇵🇸

Knowledge is empowering

did you hear about the crazy guy who ran over 12 people with a train?

yeah i heard he had a loco-motive😎👉👉

hey um are you guys seeing that columbia is threatening to bring in the national guard?

for those of you who don’t know, there were protests in the 1970s on us college campuses against the Vietnam War. At Kent State University, they called in the national guard, who massacred the protesting students.

This is an eerily similar chain of events. It’s mind-boggling that the US is so committed to imperialism that they would rather kill their own citizens than stop killing foreigners. More than that, that they would do so multiple times over, decades apart.

I hope I’m wrong and that the students will be okay. My thoughts are with them, just as my thoughts are always with the people of Palestine.

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