“Synaptic Overload”
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
(Otto Weininger)
Inspired by David Lynch’s photo series “Industrial Motives”.
Taken at the main station, Cologne (Germany).
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
「 Lachesis 」 is a header + sidebar theme with an artwork display, searchbar, custom title and description areas, and up to 10 links for your socials. 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 // 𝐀𝐩𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒.
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music player: 1 song [ + instructions ]
searchbar: up to 5 custom search suggestions
header: adjustable height, foreground image, background image, custom title, custom description, “scroll down to posts” button
sidebar: about box (title & description), links box (up to 10 custom links), pagination box
posts: 300px–700px • supports NPF posts • like & reblog buttons • click-to-view tags • source link always visible
fonts: serif and sans-serif fonts to choose from; various font sizes
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.