Ok but what about the shareholders?
“Space billionaires”
No they’re still on Earth actually, though they’re running on software written in the 50s
Voyager 3 will stop working halfway to Mars because it’ll try to verify the subscription status with us-east-1 and get a timeout.
And it’ll blow up half way into the sky because it was sent up by SpaceX.
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Google would be the worst partner for any space related work. We plan on launching in 4 years. Oh, Google says they redesigned it, oh, now it needs updates. 3 years, 11 mo later… Google cancelled the program, we need to find another partner.
October 20st, 2023: NASA’s Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters
The team is also uploading a software patch to prevent the recurrence of a glitch that arose on Voyager 1 last year. Engineers resolved the glitch, and the patch is intended to prevent the issue from occurring again in Voyager 1 or arising in its twin, Voyager 2.
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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have traveled more than 15 billion and 12 billion miles from Earth, respectively. At those distances, the patch instructions will take over 18 hours to travel to the spacecraft. Because of the spacecraft’s age and the communication lag time, there’s some risk the patch could overwrite essential code or have other unintended effects on the spacecraft. To reduce those risks, the team has spent months writing, reviewing, and checking the code. As an added safety precaution, Voyager 2 will receive the patch first and serve as a testbed for its twin. Voyager 1 is farther from Earth than any other spacecraft, making its data more valuable.
test in production taken to whole another level
"That is great to hear. I found the bug in your code. Here is an updated version that corrects it.
🧩 Source Code"
But, but… How do we extract value from it? No micro transactions? No ad revenue? Can we sell it? Write it off as a loss? Is there at least a credit card reader so aliens can sign up for recurring payments?
It’s a moonshot in that it has a very tiny likelihood of attracting alien intelligence that is such a game changer that it brings an unfathomable amount of wealth to our planet.
Allien Intelligence = potential investors and potential shareholder value. They could also destroy the planet.
I’d argue that the type of people who make those investment decisions often don’t put the proper weight on “destroy the planet” risk when calculating their expected value.
Jokes on us, investors and shareholders are already doing that.
They’re already bought puts for the case…
Plus if the documentaries, “2012” and snowpiercer have taught us anything. It’s that the rich will survive.
Voyager’s mission parameters and expectations have only decreased since 1977, it will never be required to run newer software or investigate new objects. It is winding down and is just sending back enough data that we can use our more powerful Earth-based computers to detect the most subtle changes to the cosmic medium.
Meanwhile, we have a constantly accelerating global marketplace of new software and new ways of both working and playing games. If ya’ll were operating on a system designed to stay functional for 40+ years you would not like that system.
All that said, we do have a pretty bad problem with bloatware and software/hardware companies colluding to leverage consumers to buy and upgrade phones and computers more than necessary.
I just don’t think it’s a fair comparison if we were to get really pedantic and serious about a joke meme.
If ya’ll were operating on a system designed to stay functional for 40+ years you would not like that system.
Sure would. I’m sick of the move at all and break things in modern software ecosystems. Were things this bad in CLI land too, until POSIX?
Sure would
Correct, a lot of ppl who started using emacs at inception still do so today.
It’s not only commercial software.
We’ve come to expect more from our computers and as our processors gain more power we find ways to use it. I’m running things on a laptop that before would have required a workstation. I wanted to run an LLM on an old desktop, and 8GB RAM wasn’t enough.
True, but one of the biggest things we’re using that power for recently is “why bother optimizing?” With splashes of “can we obtain any more data from the user?”
Windows XP is more than halfway there. In case you wanted to feel old today.
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The backache and frustration with the number 67 for existing already did that, but thank you for reminding me that we had a good Windows OS once.
Yeah, there aren’t many hackers in space.
That we know of
… Bruh!
That’s impressive, but in the end there is only one question:
Can it run Crysis?
I thought the benchmark was whether it can play Doom?
No, everything can run Doom.
Except ur mom because she’s so fat she can’t run.
Sorry, a joke from the Doom era escaped…
Her pacemaker can run it though
Her vibrator can as well.
I’m kinda surprised there isn’t an old Newgrounds animation based off this concept.
If this computer from the 1950s can play DOOM, I’m gonna say there’s a good chance the Voyager computer can: https://youtu.be/no0CkQk7id0
Dude! This is rad!
I thought I’d just check it out and move on, but the subject, aspects and video editing pulled me in more. Solid video share! =D
Now.
Nothing can run Crysis properly…
Real crisis has never been tried before
What about Deep Blue?
That’s a long way still only 1/374th of a light year, to keep things in perspective.
Holy shit, that’s insane
I thought it hit a light day away a couple years ago, or was that Voyager 2?
I wonder if any aliens ever ran into this, if they’d be like wow, this tech is so low, let’s not bother with who sent it.
Or if they’d be like, it looks like it took 100 years to get here, let’s see what they did in 100 years.
They’d discover humanity peaked in 1999 and decide it is best to just leave us alone.
Amazon not mentioned because they’re down
Don’t let Microsoft get a pass azure went down last week too
It’s always DNS
Yea but can you imagine how long that thing takes to load a JPEG?
It was about that time when progress was abandoned for profit. We’ve been swirling down ever since.
We’re almost to the trickle down phase. Hang in there
but can it run out of the solar system?
I really it would be working if it had newer hardware or software.
You a word
Welp… so be it.
Do not the space probe
past, the space probe gone
Shaka, when the walls fell!
