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Thank you to everyone who got me to 100 likes!

100 more ill make a cake

Thinking about the time Jon Bois did an AMA about 17776 and 20020 and the most upvoted question was

being a 17776 fan feels like chewing drywall. guys. guys this story ostensibly about american football changed me. no guys you should read it - well when I say read I mean experience it really - no no it's online it's free - no it won't break your computer this is normal it's okay i promise it's not even really about football. well no actually it's about satellites. yeah the Jupiter Explorer is in it and they're a little shit. yeah no the gender binary doesn't exist in 17776. yes i meant 17776 not 1776. it's not even really about satellites. it is though. please i am begging you read this it changed me.

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.

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

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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.

Obrigad@ a toda a gente que contribuiu para os 50 favoritos!

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thx tho. i think this project will be cool

Are you in a more obscure/less popular fandom?