46 years is a good run for a memory module.
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 — 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
Fantastic documentary on the engineers for Voyager:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt17658964/Looks really interesting, thanks for the tip!
Imagine what we could do now if we launched another Voyager.
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.
Same thought, it’s absolutely astonishing
The article took me right to the point, love to see it nowadays.
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.
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.
It’s gone past the simulation parameters?
They forgot to buy the DLC.
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
spoiler: it’s because the spacecraft has a radio with a big honkin antenna on it
Clearly it’s that it forgot about Dre.
… Who?
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
Oh…
… Who?
Dr. Dre is a rapper who was popular in the late 20th century.
Oh yeah… I know him.
… Who?
Slim Shady
They should reverse the polarity on the onboard microphone and blast some Zeppelin…. Dude
Should a used ECC
Looks like they discovered someone added a chatgpt module yo the system /s
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.
