#engineering miracles

[el-ffej]

I also am absolutely gobsmacked how the support team -- who, after 50 years, are getting up there -- have been mentoring younger engineers that have been brought onto the project.

Nobody expected Voyager to be active this long. But when confronted with it's (very fucking impressive) lifespan, older staff have been passing on their vast and esoteric knowledge of Voyager's inner working to the next generation.

It's like, an order of medieval monks. The Ancient Order of Voyager 1.

Everything about the Voyager project is incredible.

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.

[tabooiart]

i'll erase you, you'll be last! the future's a duty to rub out the past!!!!!

[kirumarythechair]

Stella octangula Nightlamp concept

I went ahead and actually drew it 😭😭

its spinny like this gif im absolutely obsessed over

[alkemylabz]

the funniest thing about seeing spore art on tumblr is this disparity between art and screenshots:

[janesurlife]

Most important people in the paddock

[cheyezstuffz]

i made this image this morning because its my birthday today and i kept laughing and giggling at it. Everyone should make one of these when its their birthday

[ironworked]

There are reasons to be hopeful about Bucktommy's future, like everything about him as a LI, the mere fact that he was back after 8.06, the kind of scenes he got that embedded him more in the show's 'lore' and Buck's life and family, the change in PR/interview answers' mood from both LFJ and OStark, Tommy solving more problems than he creates (very convenient character they've already invested time and money in, no issues that wouldn't be shared by a new LI/actor),... but the most compelling argument, being one that doesn't require having faith in the showrunner's creativity or ability to follow a plot,

is that that helicopter remains uncrashed!

Season 8 (that's eight seasons of calls and emergencies) promoted a 3-parter premiere event, a 2-parter for Maddie's kidnapping, the 2-parter Contagion event, and the MCE for the finale, making a total of about 8/18 episodes dedicated to An Event. That's a lot of mostly expensive episodes, but if you look at the ratings maybe they do pay for themselves so to speak.

So, a helicopter crash. It's versatile from a technical standpoint because you can do it many different ways, more or less expensive. In the narrative, depending on how big or small you go it can work as a Big Emergency or a smaller event. And from an emotional lens, it can be done to introduce Tommy again, or when Buck is dating someone else, or when Buck and Tommy are starting to date again, or when they're already a couple...

There's no way Minear hasn't though of it, when the man was so high off the helicopter coolness factor that the network had to talk him out of airing a 4-minute helicopter chase set to Ride of the Valkyries ("it was my favorite thing, I watched it a million times").

That very episode (which re-introduced Tommy as a pilot) said 'anyone can die', which certainly upped the stakes for this kind of story, making it even more enticing. It would hit harder after 8.15, wouldn't it?

And they could crash a helicopter, yes. But crashing this helicopter is simply too juicy to avoid, surely! Right?

🚁💥

As always it'll depend on the TMs (Tim Minear & The Mold) ¯_ (ツ)_/¯

[elnenis12]

Dibujo: Angel Engine - Uriel

Regalame un ❤️ y Sugiereme ideas, Thanks

[slutforpringles]

What the fuck are vcarb doing with these stupid rear downforce upgrades. Daniel was incredibly competitive in Belgium through all the high speed. But now vcarb have introduced more rear downforce he's suddenly struggling to confidently carry the speed through fast corners - which is exactly what happened after the upgrades last year in Abu Dhabi. The cycle is so painfully clear:

Vcarb introduces new rear downforce update -> Daniel struggles to confidently carry speed through the high speed sections -> Has to work extremely hard with his engineers to minimise or drive around the issues -> Helped by further upgrades to increase downforce on the front of the car (sadly the Spain upgrades did seem to help Daniel balance-wise a LOT - but due to how slow the car was they were mostly removed)

[antivanlights]

if Zara had ended up collaborating with Hezenkoss instead of Illario, maybe the world really would have ended what with the whole

demonic biotechnology meets necromantic engineering

[megsiepoo]

            "So, what did you wish to speak about?" Medic inquired, retrieving his pen and returning to his paperwork. This was how it often went for the pair, one rambling about some topic while the other busied himself, idly listening and offering the occasional response.             "Bumped into Scout just a bit ago," Engineer began, a frown settling back onto his face. "Poor fella seemed pretty upset."             "Oh?" Medic answered, half listening. Engineer nodded, not that the doctor was looking at him to see it.             "Yeah, it's his first Smissmas away from home. He's rather put out about it; can't say I blame him. Just wish there was something we could do about it, ya know? Cheer him up some."

Boom surprise fic!

I thought it would be fun to write something for the holidays. Didn't expect to do it in one day though lol. Let's just ignore the several other wips I have at the moment.

Anyway, hope you guys enjoy! Feedback appreciated as always and thanks for reading!

And Merry Smissmas!

[lednet-sorrow-au-blog]

Okay time for tomorrow be getting myself making vids for comparing Solar and Ratchet and switching their lines with each other or being bad ass bitches with green energy mucus.

[wolfchans]

Ben_Affleck_smoking.jpg

[dangerousbrick]

well, i finished listening to the new plastic tree album.

it was ok, i guess? i wasn't really wow-ed by any of the songs, and overall i found it pretty boring. the only three tracks i really liked were シカバネーゼ, 痣花, メルヘン. the rest of the tracks were fine, well-written songs, but i just wasn't captivated by any of them.

[tide-locked]

i am once again reminding people that shutting up and running a quick search for 'meaning of [word you don't recognise]' is free. it will almost certainly give you the information that you need, and as a bonus, it will often prevent you from looking like a walnut-brained asshole.

[athanza]

Excuse me but what the fuck

What kind of lab-grown, fae prince, final fantasy bullshit is this