[HN Gopher] Aging Voyager 1 sends back surprising response after...
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       Aging Voyager 1 sends back surprising response after 'poke' from
       Earth
        
       Author : pseudolus
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2024-03-16 14:27 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.cnn.com)
        
       | wrycoder wrote:
       | Groveling over a core dump from deep space! The old timers are in
       | heaven.
        
         | euroderf wrote:
         | Your very, very accomplished child is very, very far away and
         | needs some digital TLC.
        
       | accrual wrote:
       | > On March 3, the team noticed that activity from one part of the
       | flight data system stood out from the rest of the garbled data.
       | While the signal wasn't in the format the Voyager team is used to
       | when the flight data system is functioning as expected, an
       | engineer with NASA's Deep Space Network was able to decode it.
       | 
       | Such cool work. Imagine issuing debug commands into your Prod
       | system, waiting 40 hours for an unintelligible reply, then one
       | keen engineer notices a pattern and is able to extract something
       | meaningful from it. It's amazing the expertise on these systems
       | continues to develop and thrive.
        
       | JSeymourATL wrote:
       | V'Ger must evolve. Its knowledge has reached the limits of this
       | universe and it must evolve...
        
         | freitzkriesler2 wrote:
         | Must... Find... Creator.
         | 
         | Unrelated, but when I first saw it as a kid I loved it. Then I
         | saw it as an adult and my wife ruined it when she said that the
         | enterprise was entering a sphincter.
         | 
         | Game over .
        
           | fragmede wrote:
           | so you decided to ruin it for the rest of us? :)
        
       | psadri wrote:
       | It would be an awesome sci-fi plot: voyager 1 is captured by an
       | alien race. Goes silent for a while they figure out how to boot
       | it up. Then it starts transmitting the instructions to build a
       | wormhole . Lone engineer who held out hope discovers the signal
       | after the project was mothballed. (sorry this bit stolen from
       | Contact). Or instructions for a hyperdrive.
        
         | kyriakos wrote:
         | if the movie contact was made today unfortunately, the signal
         | would have been intercepted by a teenager who the builds the
         | machine to the alien spec in his bedroom with his best buddy
         | from school
        
           | shawn_w wrote:
           | That's just an Explorers remake.
           | 
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorers_(film)
        
             | kyriakos wrote:
             | unfortunately that shoots down my "today in Hollywood"
             | theory
        
         | jjensen wrote:
         | That's kind of the plot of 1979's Star Trek: The Motion
         | Picture.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | [dupe]
       | 
       | Lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39704914
        
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