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Voyager 2 Speaking In Tongues
dangle sends in an update from the borderland of Sol. "Voyager 2's flight data system, which formats information before beaming it back to Earth, has experienced a hiccup that has altered the pattern in which it sends updates home, preventing mission managers from decoding the science data beamed to Earth from Voyager 2. The spacecraft, which is currently 8.6 billion miles (13.8 billion km) from Earth, is apparently still in overall good health, according to the latest engineering data received on May 1. 'Voyager 2's initial mission was a four-year journey to Saturn, but it is still returning data 33 years later,' said Voyager project scientist Ed Stone of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. 'It has already given us remarkable views of Uranus and Neptune, planets we had never seen close-up before. We will know soon what it will take for it to continue its epic journey of discovery.' The space probe and its twin Voyager 1 are flying through the bubble-like heliosphere, created by the sun, which surrounds our solar system."
I think I can make it out. It says "All... your... base..."
Oh no, it's hit the crystal sphere!
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
Don't piss it off, NASA.
"It has already given us remarkable views of Uranus..."
Well, I never!
I used to work for a chemistry department whose *nix boxes were named after elements. The back up sun server (it was previously was the primary server, but it was retired in favor of a more powerful sun box and just kept as a backup) was Uranus. Every time you said Uranus, one of the *nix admins would say "Whose anus?"
Now, what was really funny was this person had a memory issue. So EVERY TIME he thought it was the first time he had told you the "joke". It got to the point where before he could even say Uranus, every professor would say yes whose anus, and he would just sit there shocked and say "How did you know I was going to say that?"
They invented a translator unfortunately it only translates into an incomparable dead language. Hello (Speaks into the translator) Bonjour (Translator Replies) see bloody gibberish.
D.J.: I thought it said "liberate me" - "save me." But it's not "me." It's "liberate tutame" - "save yourself." And it gets worse.
[Plays the distress signal again]
D.J.: There - I think that says "ex inferis." "Save yourself... from hell." Look, if what Doctor Weir tells us is true, this ship has been beyond the boundaries of our universe, of known scientific reality. Who knows where it's been, what it's seen. Or what it's brought back with it.
Miller: From hell.
They should put it on BitTorrent labeled "Assasin's Creed 3 with Ubisoft's unbreakable DRM -- REAL !!!1! 0-day warez CDC propz to Hippie!!!". It will be fixed in a week.
AM I Fucking TH3RE YeT???
Will Voyager 2 be home next Tuesday between 10 and 2? That's when we have someone available.
I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet -Stanislaw Lem
Pootonium
is not how tongues works. If the satellite really was broadcasting in tongues then everyone on the planet would be able to understand the transmissions.
I don't know about that. I, for one, can never figure out what those fucking Pentecostalists are trying to say.
This ain't rocket surgery.