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Daft_ish ,

New communications unit who dis?

onlinepersona ,

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

intensely_human ,

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!

crackajack ,

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

DragonTypeWyvern ,

They don’t manufacture their equipment.

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

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

PersnickityPenguin ,

I believe they still make the probes and rovers.

H_Interlinked ,

Thanks, Uncle Facebook.

A_Random_Idiot ,

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

FluffyPotato ,

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

kamen ,

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

intensely_human ,

His GPA was stellar

FluffyPotato ,

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

intensely_human ,

“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”

Gestrid ,

Never forget to QA test for stupid user errors.

jackie_jormp_jomp ,

Is there any other kind of user

KISSmyOS ,

dead ones

Blackmist ,

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.

Jramskov ,

…nasa.gov/…/engineers-working-to-resolve-issue-wi…

Engineers are working to resolve an issue with one of Voyager 1’s three onboard computers, called the flight data system (FDS). The spacecraft is receiving and executing commands sent from Earth; however, the FDS is not communicating properly with one of the probe’s subsystems, called the telemetry modulation unit (TMU). As a result, no science or engineering data is being sent back to Earth.

Agent_Engelbert ,

So now they are going to send engineers to fix/ replace the unit?

Letting a billion dollar piece of equipment go to waste is not very good either.

Steak ,

Pac man iq right here.

pinkdrunkenelephants ,

I think the pellets he’s been swallowing up were little bits of his brain

Agent_Engelbert ,

Coming from arch Linux, I can relate to that.

ElPussyKangaroo ,

Please tell me this is a shitpost.

Agent_Engelbert ,

There are dozens of satellites, and, o’ how ironic that I have mistook this for the reachable ones !

Cut me some slack, I have been reading nothing but books about coding for the past year or so, okay !?

qaz ,

Cut me some slack, I have been reading nothing but books about coding for the past year or so, okay !?

Books about coding? Could you tell the 00’s I said hi?

pete_the_cat ,

Yep, but it will take them 46 years to fix.

Agent_Engelbert ,

Well considering how far it is… I can only imagine that they are going to let it go due to redundancy. And yet the notion does not escape my mind.

Who knows what solutions we might come up with in the future ?

AustralianSimon ,
@AustralianSimon@lemmy.world avatar

The engineers would die of old age before they even caught up to it.

ultra ,

Womp womp.

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

“Amazingly old spacecraft is starting to break.”

Voyager 1 has had an exceptional service life, the poor old thing is tired.

intensely_human ,

I hope they can say that about me one day

“He was basically built to live 75 years. Fortunately for us, and for science, he’s still sending back signals these 4,000 years later”

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

Nope! Not me. I’m kinda hoping to undershoot the median age. My warranty’s expired and I really don’t know if I’m up for the “maybe we can find parts at the You-Pick” stage of existence.

intensely_human ,

No choice, pal. In our own subjective universe we never die.

intensely_human ,

Sophons messing with Voyager 1, keeping it from reporting something strange out there.

alexdeathway ,
@alexdeathway@programming.dev avatar

So now it’s v0yager

intensely_human ,

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.

voracitude ,

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

intensely_human ,

Way she goes, bud

TransplantedSconie ,

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

malo ,
@malo@lemmy.world avatar

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

MrShankles , (edited )

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

intensely_human ,

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

Agent641 ,

A thick layer of delicious cream cheese

intensely_human ,

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

Fuckin delicious

TransplantedSconie ,

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

sneezymrmilo , (edited )

Bit of a misleading title. The voyager can still receive commands and send data to earth, the problem is that instead of useful data it just keeps sending repeating code of no use. Not a huge fan of these sensationalized and just blatantly wrong news article titles.

Bonskreeskreeskree ,

Would you consider someone screaming gibberish at you, communicating?

intensely_human ,

It’s not gibberish. It’s alien for “Sorry, no interstellar science for you”

theneverfox ,

It’s actually just gotten far enough that the data is being rendered at lower fidelity to save resources

They didn’t expect us to get sensors outside the heliosphere before winning the game, but players always immediately find crazy and unexpected ways to break your games

duplexsystem ,

From what I read they can talk to the CCS (Computer Command System) just fine but the CCS is getting garbled data from the FDS (Flight Data Subsystem)

intensely_human ,

Flight data is like the log of sensor data right?

sneezymrmilo ,

Haha I mean that’s fair. Although I’m mainly just displeased with the title of the article. Its worded in a way that conveys that we’ve lost contact with the satellite completely, which is not the case. Just a bit too click baity for my tastes.

Silentiea ,

I didn’t quite read it that way, but I can see how someone could read it that way. It does really seem like the probe is having problems with its internals, less than “communication has stopped”

deafboy ,
@deafboy@lemmy.world avatar

People do this on a daily basis.

jj4211 ,

Twitter?

MyDogLovesMe ,

Didn’t I recently read that they were updating its software?

…typical.

Rockyrikoko ,

“upgrading”

ultra ,

They forgot to pay the subscription for the solar panels RTGs

EDIT: I guess it relies more on nuclear than solar

mjhelto ,

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

JPSound ,

Love your name. Greatest band in human history.

Lobreeze ,

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

intensely_human ,

Gosh what insight.

Burn_The_Right ,

I have complete faith in Captain Janeway.

Telodzrum ,

Tell that to Tuvix.

Burn_The_Right ,

It’s no secret. Janeway hated having someone on board who could beat her at pool.

podperson ,

I heard they just ran out of coffee though…

indigomirage ,

Was it something we said?

Naminreb ,

Why did they install Windows 11?

sparky1337 ,

Forced update, they took too long to restart.

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