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The Sun eclipsed by Earth during the Apollo 12 mission, November 1969.

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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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Olmec Jade Pendant, Nicoya. 1,200-400 BCE

Olmec Jade is found in all Mesoamerica, even in the south, Costa Rica. This is a clear example of the trade and diplomacy that happened during the pre Columbian era.

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Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.

I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.

Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.

And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!

Is that not just the coolest shit ever????

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🌪 TORNADO 🌪

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Dolphins cannot enter deep sleep, as they need to surface to breathe, so instead, they engage in a form of rest called "unihemispheric sleep," resting only half of their brain while the other half remains alert. Sleeping dolphins usually float together in a pod. Sometimes, however, one dolphin remains awake, carefully guiding its sleeping companions as they travel. 🐬🐬🐬

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The Shigir Sculpture is the oldest known wooden sculpture in the world, made during the Mesolithic period, shortly after the end of the last Ice Age. The wood it was carved from is around 11,500 years old..

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Extreme Detail of the Moon🌕

March 25

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4/3/2024 - Eclipse (Indianapolis in the path of totality)