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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a perfect screenshot. the golden moment. look at this is like a fucking draw the squad
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After all these years, it finally happened
It happened
I had a dream I was a worm
I was a worm in a relationship with a human man
He still loved me even though I was a worm
The question has been answered
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that bit where an extremely furious character will move or turn around very slowly accompanied by a stone-scraping noise
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FNAF movie Mike meets Jeremy Fitzgerald
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IM SO SICK OF YOU ALL
No nuance allowed. please share for a bigger sample 💕💕���💕💕
*by eat i mean how do you prefer your cereal.
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MOST BASS ARE JUST FISH BUT LEROY BROWN WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL
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No see results option, I'm forcing you to perceive yourself. rb for more results plus
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Me: I think I’m over the tired looking male characters. I can finally leave. I’m coming home, sweetie
Stone in less than 15 minutes:
Me: I’M BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN.
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WOAH just saw spiderman eating pizza on a roof
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