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intensely_human ,

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

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.

ultra ,

Womp womp.

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.

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.

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.

Daft_ish ,

New communications unit who dis?

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