Probably had to dust off an old Apple II to even talk to it.
Posted on 05/28/2010 9:47:25 AM PDT by mowowie
NASA engineers have fully revived the far-flung Voyager 2 probe on the edge of the solar system after fixing a computer glitch that scrambled its messages home for nearly three weeks.
A single bit flip in one location in the 33-year-old probe's memory storage caused the problem, and was remotely reset Sunday by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. After a computer reset, the Voyager 2 is back on track, they said.
The malfunction began April 22 while Voyager 2 was flying 8.6 billion miles (13.8 billion km) from Earth in the heliosphere, the magnetic bubble that surrounds our solar system. Mission scientists could not decipher the probe's science data messages and put the spacecraft in an engineering mode to just send health updates to Earth
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So the cover up begins.
Why not just admit that they couldn’t decipher the language of the aliens who reprogrammed it?
Trekkie conservative like space news, thanks. Space news in my politics, why yes tastes great.
or its become self aware?
V’ger ping.
LOL!!!
ROTFLOL!! New message to NASA “(I want to) join with (the) Creator”.
Message from alien civilization:
Keep your damned primitive junk outta my space!..............
Somewhere out there Marcel Golay is smiling.
Worthy of a Space Ping, methinks.
Probably had to dust off an old Apple II to even talk to it.
THAT'S impressive.
It’s older than many FReepers!!
IIRC, the whole thing ran on a 6502 at .5 MHz.
Tell me about it. I did my first science project on the new neptune discoveries. It was the worst I ever did. I was so heartbroken.
Everyone liked my little dinky cardboard constellation cutouts, but nobody liked my scale model of Neptune. :(
“Old” technology, well thought out, works far better than today’s bloated, buggy systems.
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