Comment on NASA's 46-year-old Voyager 1 probe is no longer transmitting data

• Nougat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is mayonaisse data?

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  • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is made of lots of little bytes of mayonnaise.

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    • uphillbothways@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Quantum mayonnaise theory.

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      • metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I'm a fan of the many Jars interpretation

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  • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes.

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• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not unreadable. It’s not data.

  If you want to be pedantic you could say it’s “transmitting symbols”.

  If I only typed out “abaababababbaab” over and over you wouldn’t call it “unreadable words.” You’d say it’s not words.

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  • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Omg, you can't just type "abaababababbaab" on the internet you filthy animal!

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