Posted on 04/23/2024 9:04:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
V-GER Phone Home..................
That’s the NASA we’re used to seeing!
Look at their picture. Not a Gen-X,Y or Z in the bunch..............
B . . . T . . . T . . . T
Except for that mask-wearing weenie in the doorway they all look normal.
More reliable that Windows updates.
That didn’t take long.
Yep, and I pray that the dude in the doorway has only a minor cold and doesn’t want to give it to any of his co-workers.
Built when NASA was all science and near zero politics.
Those people in the photo above, used to be in their 20s and 30s when the Voyager spacecraft were sent on their missions, now those people are in their 70s and 80s. ;)
Voyager 1 and 2 were intercepted by space aliens and their technology studie by those aliens, and they decided that, that tech wasn’t worth stealing, so, they allowed the voyagers to continue sending the worthless data back to Earth.
YAY!
Voyager makes a whole lot more sense than Biden & 90 percent of Congress
From what I’ve seen, it is quite rare to see many young people go into government technology work. It seems to be staffed by people who were hired when Reagan was president, or ex-military people working on their second career (government civilian or contractor to the government).
If I were snarky, I’d say that youngish people are too lazy to do the hard work required in the field of government technology work. But that’s not what I think.
I think it’s more accurate to say that the prehistoric technology, calcified bureaucracies, and crushingly stupid policies of government technology offices all ensure that no sensible young person would tolerate it. The smart ones know that it doesn’t have to be like that, it shouldn’t be like that, but that it will always be like that.
So we have senior citizens doing stuff. For awhile.
Some government sectors are still using ‘floppy discs’ to store data...................
Yup. I almost mentioned that.
The loss of that code rendered the science and engineering data unusable. Unable to repair the chip, the team decided to place the affected code elsewhere in the FDS memory. But no single location is large enough to hold the section of code in its entirety.It's incredible that they could do that at all. Equally incredible is that the team understands that ancient tech so well as to be able to devise and execute the fix.So they devised a plan to divide the affected code into sections and store those sections in different places in the FDS. To make this plan work, they also needed to adjust those code sections to ensure, for example, that they all still function as a whole. Any references to the location of that code in other parts of the FDS memory needed to be updated as well.
We need to stop driving SUVs immediately!
They had to ensure that the memory locations weren’t being used by some other sub routine and be written over by it during or before transfer...............
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