I’ve seen this before. It’s humpback whales. We need to find the nuclear wessels.
NASA engineers discover why Voyager 1 is sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system
Submitted 7 months ago by Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to globalnews@lemmy.zip
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PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 7 months ago
TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 7 months ago
Oooh I don't think I know the answer to that. I think it’s across the Bay, in Alameda.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Cosmic ray partial. Same thing happened during a Mario64 speed run years ago. The partial just happened to be flying through space and the earth and just happened to hit a spot on one of the computer chips. It made Mario warp upwards slipping a crucial section of the clockwork level. They couldn’t figure it out for years.
Pretty neat.
Daxtron2@startrek.website 7 months ago
That’s actually probably not true, it was suggested as one possible reason and games media outlets ran with it. youtu.be/vj8DzA9y8ls
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I don’t give the slightest shit about speedrunning or bit flips, but I sat through that entire video and found it fascinating.
arin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Memory fails because of cosmic rays, this is why computer server systems use ECC memory
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 7 months ago
Same thing happened during a Mario64 speed run years ago. The particle just happened to be flying through space and the earth and just happened to hit a spot on one of the computer chips. It made Mario warp upwards slipping a crucial section of the clockwork level. They couldn't figure it out for years.
You cannot seriously believe this bullshit. There are so many other potential possibilities with actually a fair likelihood, than such a stupidly rare cosmic event to be the cause of it.
wyyomin@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Veratisium did a good video about it. youtu.be/AaZ_RSt0KP8?si=mR7B5V4qIlhTF0Gc
if you think it’s unbelievable, then the video is probably worth a watch
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
lmao this sounds like the sort of shit my uncle would come up with instead of accepting that “xQtipx” is not a valid word in Scrabble
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I wonder if they can remote fix it, like block of the damaged ram, via code injection.
nezbyte@lemmy.world 7 months ago
FWIW, the voyager probes have 69.63 kB of ram to work with.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Or just send a ship out to retrieve, repair, and release it.
I’d like to see some math on how long it would take a fully orbit refilled Starship to reach it and return.
scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Someone send Elon… I’m sure it will be a quick trip so no need for extensive rations.
lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
This could be the 2050 X Prize.
Kelly@lemmy.world 7 months ago
wyyomin@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
for the cost of doing that, it’d probably be better to invest the time and resources in a new satellite all together. it’s kinda the same dilemma as the Wait Calculation
Mikufan@ani.social 7 months ago
Lets hope it’s possible but the thing is basically a Artifact by nowadays standards, so the probability is low, if its physically damaged its basically dead.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The First Artifact. I like it.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Answered in the article.
“Although it may take several months, the engineers say they can find a workaround to run the FDS without the fried chip — restoring the spacecraft’s messaging output and enabling it to continue to send readable information from outside our solar system.”
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Nah they’re gonna have to send somebody out there
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Maybe there is already somebody out there, who is manipulating the signal. 👽
paddirn@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Tldr; Not aliens
voracitude@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Instead, corrupted onboard memory. Not too surprising, considering the conditions this thing has been traveling through for longer than I have been alive.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Booooo
Davel23@fedia.io 7 months ago
Not ghosts either.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Eldritch abominations still not ruled out though.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
goddammit