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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Multigender Survey Results Dec 2023: Genders (part 2)
Gender number and labels
Participants were asked “What multigender-related labels do you use in addition to multigender?” (multiple selection). The options provided were: androgyne, bigender, genderfluid, omnigender, pangender, polygender, trigender, and none, as well as a write in option.
Participants were asked “How many genders do you identify as?” (single selection). The options provided were: 2, 3, 4, 5, more than five but not all, all, it changes, and I don’t know/I choose not to count them, as well as a write in option.
Multigender-related labels:
Androgyne: 139 (18.7%)
Most common number of genders: don’t know/choose not to count (58, 41.7%)
Bigender: 342 (46.0%)
Most common number of genders: two (125, 36.5%)
Genderfluid: 372 (50.1%)
Most common number of genders: don’t know/choose not to count (155, 41.7%)
Omnigender: 30 (4.0%)
Most common number of genders: it changes (12, 40.0%)
Pangender: 64 (8.6%)
Most common number of genders: don’t know/choose not to count (22, 34.4%)
Polygender: 63 (8.5%)
Most common number of genders: don’t know/choose not to count (26, 41.3%)
Trigender: 28 (3.8%)
Most common number of genders: it changes (9, 32.1%)
None: 122 (16.4%)
Most common number of genders: don’t know/choose not to count (74, 60.7%)
Number of genders:
Two: 137 (18.4%)
Most common multigender-related label: Bigender (125, 91.2%)
Three: 28 (3.8%)
Most common multigender-related label: Genderfluid (16, 57.1%)
Four: 10 (1.3%)
Most common multigender-related label: Genderfluid (5, 50.0%)
Five: 3 (0.4%)
Most common multigender-related label: Genderfluid (3, 100%)
More than five, but not all: 30 (4.0%)
Most common multigender-related label: Genderfluid (14, 46.7%)
All: 24 (3.2%)
Most common multigender-related label: Pangender (16, 66.7%)
It changes: 165 (22.2%)
Most common multigender-related label: Genderfluid (128, 77.6%)
I don’t know/I choose not to count them: 311 (41.9%)
Most common multigender-related label: Genderfluid (155, 49.8%)
Other: 35 (4.7%)
Most common multigender related label: Bigender (14, 40.0%)
Fluidity
Participants were asked “Is your gender fluid?” (single selection). The options provided were:
Yes, and I only ever experience one at a time: 35 (4.7%)
Yes, and I experience more than one at a time, either always or sometimes: 455 (61.2%)
Questioning: 102 (13.7%)
No: 151 (20.3%)
490 (65.9%) had some sort of fluid gender, whether they experienced one or multiple at a time.
Of participants who used the genderfluid label…
28 answered “Yes, and I only ever experience one at a time” (7.5% of participants who used the genderfluid label)
323 answered “Yes, and I experience more than one at a time, either always or sometimes” (86.8% of participants who used the genderfluid label)
19 answered “Questioning” (5.1% of participants who used the genderfluid label)
2 answered “No” (0.5% of participants who used the genderfluid label
Of participants who used the bigender label…
8 answered “Yes, and I only ever experience one at a time” (2.3% of participants who used the bigender label)
201 answered “Yes, and I experience more than one at a time, either always or sometimes” (58.8% of participants who used the bigender label)
44 answered “Questioning” (12.9% of participants who used the bigender label)
89 answered “No” (26.0% of participants who used the bigender label)
Participants who used the bigender label were significantly less likely than participants overall to answer “Yes, and I only ever experience one at a time” (p < 0.05) and significantly more likely than participants overall to answer “No” (p < 0.01).
Nonbinary Identity
Participants were asked “Do you identify as nonbinary?” (single selection). The options provided were:
Yes, nonbinary is one of the genders that I identify with: 82 (11.0%)
77 participants who selected this option also used the nonbinary label (93.9% of participants who selected this option)
Yes, nonbinary describes my gender identity overall: 130 (17.5%)
121 participants who selected this option also used the nonbinary label (93.1% of participants who selected this option)
Yes, nonbinary is both my overall gender identity and a specific gender I identify with: 115 (15.5%)
113 participants who selected this option also used the nonbinary label (98.3% of participants who selected this option)
Somewhat, the nonbinary label is technically accurate but it's not what I prefer: 213 (28.7%)
88 participants who selected this option also used the nonbinary label (41.3% of participants who selected this option)
Somewhat, it changes or depends on context: 70 (9.4%)
51 participants who selected this option also used the nonbinary label (72.9% of participants who selected this option)
No, but I don't mind being referred to as such: 44 (5.9%)
6 participants who selected this option also used the nonbinary label (13.6% of participants who selected this option)
No, and being referred to as such is misgendering: 78 (10.5%)
2 participants who selected this option also used the nonbinary label (2.6% of participants who selected this option)
Other (write-in): 11 (1.5%)
6 participants who selected this option also used the nonbinary label (54.5% of participants who selected this option)
Of participants who used the nonbinary label…
77 answered “Yes, nonbinary is one of the genders that I identify with” (16.6% of participants who used the nonbinary label)
121 answered “Yes, nonbinary describes my gender identity overall” (26.1% of participants who used the nonbinary label)
113 answered “Yes, nonbinary is both my overall gender identity and a specific gender I identify with” (24.4% of participants who used the nonbinary label)
88 answered “Somewhat, the nonbinary label is technically accurate but it's not what I prefer” (19.0% of participants who used the nonbinary label)
51 answered “Somewhat, it changes or depends on context” (11.0% of participants who used the nonbinary label)
6 answered “No, but I don't mind being referred to as such” (1.3% of participants who used the nonbinary label)
2 answered “No, and being referred to as such is misgendering” (0.4% of participants who used the nonbinary label)
6 answered “other” (1.3% of participants who used the nonbinary label)
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