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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

46 years is a good run for a memory module.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What’s wild to me is

Although it may take several months, the engineers say they can find a workaround to run the FDS without the fried chip β€” restoring the spacecraft's messaging output and enabling it to continue to send readable information from outside our solar system.

Like there is such limited hardware on that thing, and we communicate with it in such low bandwidth signals, it’s such a testament to the engineers behind the project that it can still be customized 46 years later, being outside the solar system, to overcome failing hardware

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Fantastic documentary on the engineers for Voyager:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt17658964/

[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Same thought, it’s absolutely astonishing

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine what we could do now if we launched another Voyager.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

It would run a Twitter stack on a Windows server and reboot itself every Monday morning.

The planetary alignment that allowed for the first 2 Voyager missions won't reoccur for nearly a century.

[–] prembil@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The article took me right to the point, love to see it nowadays.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ve been so conditioned to skim articles to get past the fluff and in-line marketing looking for the point I didn’t realize I ended up reading the whole article. Refeshing.

[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s gone past the simulation parameters?

[–] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They forgot to buy the DLC.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

There's no dlc, we just have to unlock the content properly. For that, we need a living human to get past the kuiper belt

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago

After decoding the spacecraft's response, the engineers have found the source of the problem: The FDS's memory has been corrupted.

Pretty much what was speculated.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 8 points 1 year ago

spoiler: it's because the spacecraft has a radio with a big honkin antenna on it

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

They should reverse the polarity on the onboard microphone and blast some Zeppelin…. Dude

[–] _wizard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I wonder if it was the legacy team that found it or if they brought in a new team to find the culprit. Would be a bit humiliating to that team of so.

[–] ghostface@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like they discovered someone added a chatgpt module yo the system /s

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Should a used ECC

[–] thesilverpig@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clearly it's that it forgot about Dre.

[–] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got somethin' to say

But nothing comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch of gibberish

And motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre

[–] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dr. Dre is a rapper who was popular in the late 20th century.

[–] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah.... I know him.

... Who?