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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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just encountered a spider so big I very seriously considered downloading tinder exclusively to find a man to come over and move it outside

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Radio hosts are killed at the end of every day and replaced by exact clones the next day, that's why they are so fascinated and entertained by basic things

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I was about to be irritated at a shitty "kids' education" website on 1770s clothing but then I learned that there's a staymaker buried at King's Chapel and now I'm just delighted to know the gravesite of a clothing worker from that era and I want to take him flowers

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I think the most fun part of monsters inc is boo calling sulley “kitty” and mike wazowski by full government name

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Submitted by @sky-the-snail-fanatic

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do you try to make sure you get at least three meals a day

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It really depends on if the spiders are venomous.

If yes, crocodile. At the very least I know where it's teeth are at all times.

If no, spiders. Way more uncomfortable, sure, but also more survivable.

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people have these “my dog is a democrat” stickers and I like to imagine them with increasingly unlikely animals professing more niche political opinions:

my parrot is a democratic socialist

my arctic fox is an anarchopastoralist

my catfish believes in the divine right of kings

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In the games, Maya would sometimes say, “We’re lawyers” and I always would go “no one in this game should be able to call themself a lawyer, especially you Maya.” Anyone who sees these videos probably thinks I don’t like Nick because I only exist to bully him. I love Nick. He’s great. He’s just so easy to bully. 

Thank you to @themornal and @8edhead for doing the voice work again! 

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Mods? Take him to the stump of his favorite childhood tree.

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Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

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I went to a clown hatchery in Madison today and oh my FUCKING god there must've been at least 10000 clowns there. it was incredible

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Room idea:

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What is the highest number of notes on a post you have made? What's your most "successful" post?

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#Flickle #744

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📆 Daily Streak: 153 (Best 153)

🏆 Win Streak: 95 (Best 95)

Seen like half this movie a decade ago. The breakup song is still stuck in my head.