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NASA receives response from Voyager 1 spacecraft 13 billion miles away after 37 years of inactivity
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| March 22, 2018
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Posted on 03/29/2018 5:54:55 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: seawolf101
That’s that Damn Hogg Kid !!
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posted on
03/29/2018 6:46:30 PM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
To: Enchante
My former boss at Martin-Marietta (now Lockheed-Martin) worked on the Titan program that launched Voyager I and II; seems like a long time ago....actually, it was a long time ago.
To: Enchante
“The Voyager flight team dug up decades-old data and examined the software that was coded in an outdated assembler language”
The outdated assembly language was probably for the Intel 8080/8085 CPU.
To: posterchild
Nope, assembly language is just as valid as the day the machine was built. These days we put layers of “translation” programing to make it easier to program, but Assembler is just a single layer above machine language. Ones and zeros.
Would be fun to program that machine.
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posted on
03/29/2018 6:57:19 PM PDT
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: a fool in paradise
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posted on
03/29/2018 7:03:50 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Chickensoup
Slow to write, fast to execute....
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posted on
03/29/2018 7:07:17 PM PDT
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Paladin2
To: Enchante
Wasn’t there something about “Viger” coming back in an old TV show years ago?
To: Enchante
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posted on
03/29/2018 7:11:00 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Enchante
Where is it at in relationship to Earth?
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posted on
03/29/2018 7:14:03 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
To: Enchante
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posted on
03/29/2018 7:14:38 PM PDT
by
Varsity Flight
(Extortion-Care is is the Government Work-Camp)
To: SaveFerris
Those minutes add up at that distance.
To: Enchante
It’s got the chips I made 30+ years ago in it. They’ll still be working when they can no longer hear it.
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posted on
03/29/2018 7:24:54 PM PDT
by
blam
To: SpaceBar
Assembly language - Wikipedia As a current Java programmer I believe I will have a job forever. They had to find some 60 year dude that still code read that stuff to help them fire those lost engines codes.
To: dfwgator
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posted on
03/29/2018 7:27:48 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: a fool in paradise
Lol. Learned to program in assembly. Makes people understand what happens under the hood.
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posted on
03/29/2018 7:29:33 PM PDT
by
wgmalabama
(The government murdered Robert LaVoy Finicum - what makes you think you are not next?)
To: American in Israel
“Would be fun to program that machine.”
My memories of machine coding are painful. I will pass.
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posted on
03/29/2018 7:32:25 PM PDT
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Dawggie
To: SpaceBar
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posted on
03/29/2018 7:32:57 PM PDT
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wgmalabama
(The government murdered Robert LaVoy Finicum - what makes you think you are not next?)
To: henkster
“Which is even more amazing. I just started my freshman year in college when it was launched, and now I’m contemplating retirement in a few years.”
Wow. Just think, you’ve lived 13 billions miles worth of spacecraft.
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posted on
03/29/2018 7:34:29 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(The Democrats haven't been this pissed off since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
To: wgmalabama
“Why didn’t they just buy an app???”
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posted on
03/29/2018 7:35:43 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge)
To: Enchante
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posted on
03/29/2018 7:38:09 PM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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