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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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Breuil-Cervinia

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meng'er zhang as xu xialing in shang-chi and the legend of the ten rings

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995)

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Rashida Jones as Ann Perkins in ─ Parks And Recreation | 4.07 "The Treaty"

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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Oh no, not another morning. How will our hero cope?

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i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

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Bill Paxton as William Hudson Aliens (1986) dir. James Cameron

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Day 2128, 20 April 2024

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Syd doesn't have a boyfriend. She has a weighted blanket.

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Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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You’re meeting the friend of a friend for the first time, who’s apparently an empath. When they shake your hand, they immediately rip their hand away from you.

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Well I know this sounds corny, but whenever I feel the temptation of peer pressure, I turn to God and he helps me through the problem.

CRUEL INTENTIONS (1999) dir. Roger Kumble

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steve's tight little shirts

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FLORENCE PUGH and SCARLETT JOHANSSON as THE WIDOWS