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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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If you dog-ear your books we can't be friends (or be in the same room)

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Taking a nap next to mom

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they are swimming around ur blog

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Actually my mum needs to constantly remind me this

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Sorry I won't be able to join this meeting today ma'am

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I love genuinely innocent “boys will be boys.” Just saw a guy come out of a frat house to poke a pair of jeans they’d left outside - they were frozen solid, and as soon as he confirmed that, like twenty more boys came rushing out of the house going “YOOOOOOOOOO”

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this guy's beef got old enough to have geology

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sorry I cried and told you I was gonna kill myself over a small thing, I have crying and wanting to kill myself over small things disorder

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in recognition of World Down Syndrome Day on March 21

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didn't ford do something similar... like he paid his workers 5 dollars and gave them the weekend off so the workers were "happier" and worked harder

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*the gays* : "mom said you have to share the moon if you want to keep it"

the moon belongs to lesbians. sorry i don't make the rules!!