NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.

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Imagine if this were built with tech from today. It would be non-functional right after the warranty.

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But it’s got 70 terabits of storage! We closed over 1700 issues on this thing! My god we must have spent 13 billion on it so far!

How can it be failing? I mean just … just … look at the numbers!

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Thanks, Uncle Facebook.

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Thankfully, NASA is non-profit so they won’t ever do that.

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They don’t manufacture their equipment.

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I believe they still make the probes and rovers.

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They don’t, but they manage the people that do and pay for it

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Shrug, Opportunity is much newer and still lasted about a thousand times longer than its design length.

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I bet there’s something out there, at 22.5 light hours, that the aliens don’t want us to know about. After V1 passes through this thing they don’t want us to detect, they’ll allow the glitch to be fixed.

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Can see lemmy is becoming reddit-like so fast. Most of these discussion become shitty rehashed jokes. Thanks for contributing.

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And your contribution is notably worse, as well as toxic, imo. Rehashing the same rhetoric about how forums are similar, no matter where you go online… maybe you spent too much time on reddit yourself, or on forums in general. I hate the statement “go touch grass”, but you’re literally breathing life into it right now.

At least they contributed something I enjoyed reading. Don’t be a jerk

Edit: Nvm, I’m wasting my time. Looking at your comments and you’re obviously just flaming shit like a common troll, or someone who really is a jerk. Don’t care either way. Thanks for contributing your vitriol

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Just don’t do deep dives on people’s comment history. It’s only stress.

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I can’t tell if you’re joking. That’s depressing.

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Way she goes, bud

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Well, guess we’re goin the fuck home then.

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A thick layer of delicious cream cheese

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Oh my god can you imagine? With holes in the cream cheese and that’s stars.

Fuckin delicious

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And the Qanon nutbags just got their next “truth bomb” to drop.

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I don’t blame it for cutting off earth. This place is toxic and self destructive.

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Gosh what insight.

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Love your name. Greatest band in human history.

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H off that album is one of my all time fav songs

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When the new intern presses shut down instead of disconnect while connected to the production server

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“No! No! Log out you fool! No! Don’t shut it down oh god he shut it down”

“Told you we should have greyed that out”

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Never forget to QA test for stupid user errors.

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Is there any other kind of user

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Ah, time to reconfigure the IP address. Just set that, and *click* bring down network port, and *click* bring it up again… *click* … *click* … oh.

Based on a true story.

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The question then is why the intern has access to the shut down button.

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His GPA was stellar

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Management got one IT guy managing the whole infrastructure so everyone who needs anything gets domain admin rights

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Womp womp.

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