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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 85 points 8 months ago (1 children)

46 years is a good run for a memory module.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 111 points 8 months 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 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

Looks really interesting, thanks for the tip!

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months 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.

[–] asbestos@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Same thought, it’s absolutely astonishing

[–] prembil@lemmy.world 53 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 8 months 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.

[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It’s gone past the simulation parameters?

[–] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They forgot to buy the DLC.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 8 months 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

[–] sepi@piefed.social 9 points 8 months ago

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

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 7 points 8 months ago

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

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Should a used ECC

[–] ghostface@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

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

[–] thesilverpig@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Clearly it's that it forgot about Dre.

[–] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] xuv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah.... I know him.

... Who?

[–] _wizard@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months 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.