*while making out* so, you think it was a singular giant frog or multiple frogs?

Matzo bag from my partner’s great great grandmother, probably circa 1900, probably Austria

First Meeting | 7 years later...

Mystic Mountain

 IC 1805, Center of the Heart

M51, Star Sparks

M104, Sombrero Galaxy

NGC 7023, Iris

 NGC 3372, Eta Carinae

Gamma Cygni

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.

If my sister is so fucjing concerned about how long I spend in the bathroom, she can wake up earlier and get there first 🙄

i feel like high school/middle school sitcoms set the unrealistic expectation of being able to have lunch time outside

i think that people should start using “in poor taste” as a descriptor again given it is often the most applicable and clearest phrase when discoursing about media and analysis; sometimes a piece of art isn’t actually THE most problematic thing of all time is is. ​just in poor taste (not JUST in poor taste as a reductive take on potential harm but/and as in regardless of intent the impact is this was an offensive or stupid take/choice)