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reblog for sample size !!

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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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I’m bored and nosy. Please reblog this with the book you’re currently reading.

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i made this poll a while ago and watermelon won, which to say the least had many members the mangoenthusiast.com up in arms about it, so settle this for once and all

no third option, propaganda is welcome. reblog after voting <3

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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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Between the days

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this seems self-centered you know “stereotypical American bs” but I’m curious

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hands down the best genre of painting is "cowboy on a horse in front of a landscape with incredibly crisp and detailed clouds"