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.
not my meme but you all do know about this right? It feels like it's getting buried right now and I feel like its proponents are trying to take advantage of that.
ok, gotta actually make a proper post about this haha since the VR/College AU is 100% finished, here's the printed version, I decided to title it "Fool me once, love me twice"!
PREORDER HERE
💜 preorders open until april 30! (extra copies will be available after as well but I don't know in which quantity considering how thick each copy is!)
💜 17 x 24cm (6.7'' x 9.4''), perfect bound, 183 full color comic pages + glossy cover
💜 PDF of the full comic available at a discounted price in bundle with the printed comic, to be sent out when the printed version's shipping period begins!
💜 stand and print are available at discounted price just during preorders, after april 30 (production) they will be at full price!
💜 estimated shipping: after may 21-30 for zine only and zine + print orders, if your order includes the standee, estimated shipping is around june 17 or so (but maybe sooner)
💜 I ship from Italy and to anywhere, you can check shipping times and info here! Shipping cost will show before checkout