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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 finished isat. so obviously i had to draw about 5 million siffrins to cope

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Me opening my grade book: Grades?

Grade book: ONE MILLION ASSIGNMENCE. If NOT DONE IN TWENTY!!!!FOUR MINUTES YOU WILL DEATH,

Me: Mm I see (closes my eyes for the next seventy years as I imagine the beautiful wobbegong)

[Image IDs: three gifs of an Ornate Wobbegong swimming through the ocean, taken at different angles. The Wobbegong is a light brown shark with dark brown bands horizontal across it's body, and white spots covering it. It moves smoothly through the water, tail swishing behind it. End ID.]

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siffrins !!!

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PROTOSCAG,, ROBOTS4EVA

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frolicking in da fields with the bff

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The art of violence

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[RHETORIC - Legendary 14]: Convince Kim you are in a timeloop.

(ISAT side of the swap)

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In Stars and Disco

(Disco side of the swap)

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birds of paradise

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Controlled chaos

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flower for you!

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Progr tamer

A profession in which a Koolu gathers up Sweet flake plants and with them and a small shakey instrument lures wild Progrs. Which are then tamed/domesticated. Progrs lay nutritious eggs and their dung serves as really good fertilizer. Some Koolu cultures even eat Progrs

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// If I die in this world

(But I must carry on)

Who will know something of me?

(Nothing worse can befall) //

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Me when evil moff