🪶🌑great-eared nightjar🌑🪶

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:

Another sketch brought to you by #paleostream

Some still young Barbourofelis investigate a single crab that fearlessly stands it's ground.

Various Bison, enjoy an afternoon grazing on fresh green grasses, Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming

(c) riverwindphotography, April 2023 and April 2024

hello i am afraid to go to sleep

I was able to sleep maybe an hour and a half after the sun came up

Studies of some orphaned badger cubs I met last month, in the safe hands of a fantastic wildlife rehabilitator.

if anyone is interested in watching the livestream of the world dog show, you can find it here:

the show has already started at 8am but the stream will go live in around 7ish hours (3pm my time)

FCI grps 1, 7, 10 are up today and if i've understood correctly, only the best in show etc categories will be streamed (so not the entire show) and the stream should be in english!

you can see which other breeds are judged on which day + other cool statistics on the show's site here:

Omg this is like 800 metaphors rolled into one megaphor

I would like everyone to know that vulture vomit is very stinky. It smells of rotting flesh and they use it to drive away predators

Direct action

hey, at least have a picture of the American vultures doing this, not eurasian/african vultures, they are very different creatures!

Apparently vultures are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, so there is nothing ICE can do about this except politely try to shoo the birds away.

So gods finally stopped fucking around and started with the Omens huh

Please does anybody have the picture of the orange kitten sitting in front of old yellowed wood paneling and it’s smiling like this. The post where I saw it went something like “little kids before they learn how to smile in photos”

this one?

THANK YOUUUUUU