Mmmm. 17776 Might Be One Of The Few Utopian Pieces Of Fiction I Can Actually See As Beautiful And A World

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.

I am going to be so normal about this

it's so on brand that JUICE nearly launched on fucking 4/13 only for it to get delayed because of weather. still. it would have been very funny

Are you in a more obscure/less popular fandom?

sorry to all my new follers, i havent been doing much thinking abt 17776 recently :/

>PIONEER 10 CONSOLE< C:\>run EVENTS.EXE ~~~~~Events Calendar~~~~~ –Today– March 2nd, 2024: Happy Birthday to Pioneer 10! –Upcoming– April 14th, 2024: Happy Launchday to the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer! April 24, 2024: Happy Birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope!!! November 8th, 2024: Happy Birthday to Pioneer 9!

hello, it is me, 17776. i am here to foot ball

THEY TRAPPED HIM

But are you absolutely 10000% sure you know what 17776 is?! 🤨

unless there is a secret 17776, then yes. i havent delved deep into the meanings of 17776, so i dont really know it on that front. ive read it thrice, and one of my old teachers used to say you only really know a book until youve read it 3 times, so i know it in that case.

Every year Since like 2022 I reread 17776 and I havent yet this year and for a few months it was just cause I wanted to be patient (I think last year or the year before I read it in like January) but I started again in March and my master plan was to read it in my downtime in school but then our school got destroyed by a tornado and I just kinda stopped and I find that funny