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NASA Finds Cause of Voyager 2 Glitch
astroengine writes "Earlier this month, engineers suspended Voyager 2's science measurements because of an unexpected problem in its communications stream. A glitch in the flight data system, which formats information for radioing to Earth, was believed to be the problem. Now NASA has found the cause of the issue: it was a single memory bit that had erroneously flipped from a 0 to a 1. The cause of the error is yet to be understood, but NASA plans to reset Voyager's memory tomorrow, clearing the error."
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I'd have thought a cosmic ray flipped an important bit.
It has no modding on it but the person who replied
Pissaw, young'uns don't know anything anymore;
Was modded +5 informative!
Looks like its time for some retrospective modding.
Wall street firms are my hero. The shit they do is so cool, it the pristine ice of Titan is like hot lava in comparison. They hack the entire political system, turn it completely against itself, use the fact that the banks are Federally insured to their advantage so that bank customers never bother to check, who the hell are they giving their money to. They hack the Government, install the Fed, get Free Money, hack some more, get the country off the gold standard, become huge beyond anyone's imagination, hack some more, create a bunch of moral hazards by making sure government also insures mortgages, at this point the last hack is the most beautiful though: have the right people slipped into the government positions to pay the banks for failing in the hugest ways and make hundreds of billions of dollars getting bailed out AFTER they lose everyone's money. They are FORCED by the hacked government to take the cash and everyone is asking them to 'please take the money'. They have hacked the society completely to make it believe that this is how things should be done: fiat money, fed, printing, borrowing, insuring by government, regulations to kill off competition, globalization, high frequency trading, more insurance by government, moral hazard, bail out cash, too big to fail, and the next hack will be the most amazing yet, when the t-bills and bonds are being sold off and the dollars printed to buy back all of them while these guys will make so much money, something into quadrillions, when they get back the bets against all of those bonds and t-bills and government securities and the entire world begs them at their knees to PLEASE, PLEASE take it ALL just so that tomorrow the day will be approximately the same as yesterday. And they will graciously take it all.
Now that is a hack worthy of admiring.
You can't handle the truth.
>>>for us audio-nerds... tubes had that nice desirable sweet sound...
"Sizzle"..... like a modern day iPod/MP3 player. NOT a desirable trait in my humble opinion. I prefer the cleanness of CDs or other non-compressed media.
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