Damn, I made the moment of killing a child cinematic

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.

an article on the subject for the curious:

leoreturns:

Will it hit a million notes today?

Will it hit 2 million notes today?

solo jazz suicune

There’s something I need to know, and I’m only like a decade and some change late, so

Extra credit if you specify why in the tags. I’m curious how many people’s preference is tied to the city perks versus the house perks themselves

You know when someone goes through your blog on a mass like-spree for a fandom? I love those like, 19 notifications in a row. it’s like “Ah, I see you’re well into a fixation. God bless.”

I like when your dash fills up with something incredibly specific from one poster and it’s like “oh you’re trawling a specific tag tonight”

#my bad to everyone who has to experience this#I just really like stuff 😕

No it’s great people need to do it more. I love opening Tumblr to find that my entire dash is just pictures of snails or something.

better is subjective u can vote based on usefulness or sexiness or w/e the fuck . idc

seeing them so close is crazyy

spirit tracks link has never seen a horse before in his life and the rest of the links have never seen a train. this is comedy gold

twitter

i’m going to kdxjdhdjhddjjdhs

TWO??? Having a private jet at all is bad enough on its own but why the fuck does she need two of them???

I hate the black sails description on netflix. Sure that’s what it’s about but not what it’s ABOUT!!??

ATTENTION

If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

i’m curious to see how many people use their likes as an organizational tool like i do, or maybe in a way i’m never heard of before.

do you have strong feelings about how likes should be used?

reblog for a bigger sample size etc etc

some of you have VERY strong feelings about this huh