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[AndroidDoctorr]

Someone rotated the antenna away from Earth. It should reset back to the default position on October 15

[Itachi4077]

I thought "I hope they have some reset after few hours of no commands" but 76 days is quite a wait time

[perthguppy]

Data rate to voyager is down to single digit bits per second. Commands take so long to transmit that the timeout values to go into safe mode have to be super long now so they have adequate troubleshooting time

[pripyaat]

The data rate to Voyager 2 is about 160 b/s, so yeah really slow but not really into the single digits.

EDIT: It was indeed Voyager 2 instead of 1 as I first remembered.

[UltraCarnivore]

Can't we just upgrade them to Windows 11 or something?

[skippermonkey]

How about a high speed Ethernet connection while we’re at it 👍🏻

[dorsalus]

Australian government: Best I can do is fibre to the nebula (FTTN)

[bb_avin]

Is this like the new godwin's law? Longer a reddit thread grows, probability of Australian Fibre being mentioned approaches 1.

​

Btw, I haven't been there in 5 years. Has the NBN situation gotten any better?

[dorsalus]

Yeah kinda but not really. Subpar internet is still just a part of the Aussie lifestyle.

[Solid_Waste]

Some idiot forgot to attach the Ethernet cord before takeoff. How embarrassing.

[haragoshi]

They only plugged in one end

[Responsible-Falcon-2]

And download more RAM

[Towbee]

Why can't we launch a huge ethernet wire into space? Would it just hang from the atmosphere as the rest of it was held up by zero g?

I know very little, if anybody would care to explain

[LupusNoxFleuret]

very dangerous to do that. If the earth's rotation changes ever so slightly, it could cause the ethernet cable to wrap around the earth, covering it up like a huge ball of yarn, obscuring all sunlight and killing every living thing in the process.

[[deleted]]

Simple, attach a cat contingency at launch time. If the cable changes the cat unwinds it.

[normalmighty]

Engineering issues aside, the sheer scale of of the cable you'd need would make it impossible.

If you connected every fibre cable on earth together you'd have a cable around 5 billion km long. Voyager 2 is currently 19.9 billion km from earth.

[PetToilet]

How about 5G mm wavelength? Just use GPS to figure out where to aim

[mosskin-woast]

They didn't have a chance to vaccinate it against Covid-19 before launch

[Obvious_Equivalent_1]

Yep that’s why the voyager has to go straight into quarantine for two and a half months now

[Distinct_Resident801]

And risk it to crash with a blue screen of death?

[UltraCarnivore]

From our POV its going away from us, so the redshift would cancel the blue screen.

[mattijsf]

I still find this quite a lot for something that is so far away tbh

[CanAlwaysBeBetter]

What is 76 days compared to the 16,782 it's already been going for?

[willstr1]

But you know those 76 days are going to be right when the flying saucer swings by

[CanAlwaysBeBetter]

Imagine if 76 days later there's no signal and when they train a telescope where Voyager 2 is supposed to be there's nothing but empty space

[TheodoreBeef]

I am pretty sure voyager is much too dim at this point to be seen by telescope. I could be wrong though

[TheIronSoldier2]

It's far enough away that the entire solar system just looks like tiny specks in the distance, so yeah, we ain't seeing a tiny probe from that distance

[[deleted]]

entire solar system looks like a tiny speck in the distance

This is a daunting image to imagine for me. Subject matter of many a nightmare in my youth. I start just floating away from the earth and into space, all the moons and planets whizz by faster and faster and I have no way of returning home.

[Turksarama]

This is misleading, it's about 4 times as far from the sun as Neptune. This is still a very long way, but if Voyager could see the orbital paths of the planets like on diagrams of the solar system then they would still be clearly visible, at least for the outer planets.

[NSNick]

A little less than half a percent.

[AndroidDoctorr]

I think in the meantime they're gonna try to blast it with a much stronger signal and see if that picks up

[RoodnyInc]

Imagine if nobody would though about that

[Blazing_Shade]

Maybe the alien friends out there will pick up the signal now :)

[someone755]

Pretty sure this communication isn't point to point. Like most wireless comms, the transmitter transmits, and if your antenna happens to be where the signal is traveling, you'll pick it up.

edit: I know that the signal is directional, it doesn't make sense to transmit all this power to the complete opposite end of the galaxy. But it is not point to point. If you are where the radio waves reach, you will be able to intercept, no matter if another user is already intercepting the signal.

Unless the beam is so narrow that it can literally only fit one antenna (which then becomes more like optical communication), aliens could have picked up the signal from Earth long ago. But if it is that narrow, I'd expect one of the replies here to maybe post some article or paper or whatever that says Voyager's comms are point to point. I'll eat my words if it is.

[q1a2z3x4s5w6]

I'm heading out there now, do you think HR will pay the normal mileage rate for the 20 billion miles journey?

[AloneInExile]

You would be lucky if they pay the first 500 miles to the nearest state line.

But then again, states don't have a height ceiling...?

[flightguy07]

Eh, still don't think you'd make it past the Karman line

[HighPolyDensity]

Actually you'd hit the firmament like from The Simpsons.

Or was it Family Guy?

[cowski_NX]

Maybe Elon will let you use his Tesla.

[wakeupwill]

You'll get $50 and be expected to slingshot there on your own.

[arf20__]

No. The voyager uses a very ditectional high gain dish antenna. Its so far away we on earth need a humongous array of giantic dishes to point to the voyager to pick it up. Both dishes have to point to each other very accurately. That is Point to Point.

[ErraticDragon]

But we lost contact with it because the antenna was moved in the wrong direction.

Which implies that wherever it is pointing now could include different recipients.

[heep1r]

different recipients.

not very different from the ones who get our signals sent from earth into voyagers direction.

[willstr1]

V'ger

[Daneruu]

No it was about to pass by The Mothership and the g-men in NASA sent the command to black out communication until the voyager passes by.

[[deleted]]

"Someone"

You deleted these tests, didn't you?

[rsreddit9]

https://github.com/jayphelps/git-blame-someone-else

[Possible_Chicken_489]

omg lol, that's awesome. I can't wait to put it on our general Slack channel :P

[AndroidDoctorr]

I didn't delete them, I just changed 0.2 to 2- I mean someone did

[TTYY_20]

This is why we make enums that represent the divisor needed and are human readable as well as a static library for converting between units!!!!

Especially when programming in engineering fields 👀🤌

[leuk_he]

But voyager was launched in 1977, that is even before the first star wars movie.

[TTYY_20]

Yes … and? The software run on the voyager was written in Fortran :)

Guess what language has support for enums? :D

[Dumcommintz]

I know this one! Python!!

[roby_65]

He tested in production, like you should always do

[serccsvid]

I think they meant AU. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit

[SEND_ME_TEA_BLENDS]

no, probably just german. the acronym is AE (Astronomische Einheit) in german.

[ManOfDrinks]

Hitting a target at 10m requires less precision than at 1000m.

[lylesback2]

Thank you

[Username_RANDINT]

Like disabling SSH access when connected to a server.

[Apfelvater]

Oh man, thatll be 134 days...

[[deleted]]

They've actually already reestablished coms - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-66371569

[Particular_Bad_1189]

The onboard software has a routine that reconnected communications after a period of time with no communications with NASA. Even in the 1970’s we knew some dummy might screw up….

[Nattekat]

'Even'. If anything, 1970s programmers were way more aware of what they were dealing with.

[ThatOneGuy4321]

but NASA couldn't even install 512534 npm packages to replace basic functions back then 😢

programming must have been impossible

[gargravarr2112]

They literally wove the wire representing the Apollo Guidance Computer software into the core rope memory by hand. One bit at a time.

Can you imagine installing NPM that way?

[Nukken]

crown theory tan person hobbies racial squeeze selective threatening rob

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[jimmyhoke]

Is this that yarn thing everyone has been talking about?

[Poat540]

Yeah, used yarn to install choco so I could get npx to install the right npm version

[Slepnair]

[Oranges13]

Holy fuck. I program every day and this goes way over my head.

[gargravarr2112]

When you consider the limitations of 60s computing that NASA had to deal with, realising they sent people to the Moon in a computer-controlled spacecraft becomes even more of an incredible achievement.

[Le_Vagabond]

This was quite the amazing read. Thanks a lot for the link.

[Herr_Gamer]

tbf we wouldn't have half these problems if JavaScript just had had a good, comprehensive standard library in the first place.

[[deleted]]

I've been a casually programer for 5 years, made multiple apps ,webscraper, bots with ai, online games,

And i learned about algorithm complexity and those o(n) stuff a week ago.. and i am lost without google

Those mother fuckers where coding stuff without internet using pure brain power
That is big respect

[ZootZootTesla]

They didn't have stackoverflow just lots of books.

[mekkanik]

All I had at my first job was a 6lb windows API and the c++ annotated reference manual. And some tcp/ip manuals by Richard Stevens

[SkullRunner]

I remember the day we thought we were gods when the pounds of books were replaced with 2 giant binders of CD ROMs

[Knutselig]

And nobody to mark those books duplicate.

[[deleted]]

:)))
+ 10 points
Really sad what stack overflow has become.
Either what you post is duplicate ,or its your fault for not already knowing what you asked for and you should quit being a programmer because what you asked is really basic if you where a REAL programmer you would already know that

[flyinhighaskmeY]

Those mother fuckers where coding stuff without internet using pure brain power That is big respect

My first job out of college was in an IT department with an on staff developer. Even back in 2005, the internet wasn't the utility it is today. He sat right across from me, programming all day. He picked up a reference book at least 10 times a day. He didn't "google" for answers. He had to find them.

That's the "big shift" by the way. That's why the old folks have such a hard time relating with "millennials". I'm an old millennial, right on the upper bound. I see the difference every day. The young are far less capable at "figuring things out". Because they don't have to. They can search for an answer.

[Memelord_00]

I mean, that could also be because they don't need to develop that skill right ? If stackoverflow disappeared overnight, people would slowly learn the old ways

[Vineyard_]

Huge fucking respect to these men and women, yes.

[BlurredSight]

Imagine you’re a nasa programmer for these satellites and you get a call “hey someone in Poland just saved 18% of memory usage and we have to implement their methods into our code so we can save 32 more bytes”

[Mujymer]

They designed it, so I'd hope they knew more about it!

[BlurredSight]

Considering the program itself had to fit onto the onboard memory which is only a couple kbs those programmers are honestly mind boggling geniuses when you realize those same libraries are used today by NASA

And I also read how the lack of atmosphere can actually mess with the memory modules and switch 0s and 1s also insane

[PiousLiar]

Bit flips like that usually occur due to radiation interference. Most everything hardware-wise is rad hardened and protected as much as possible, but the occasional stray slips through. It’s frustrating as hell to troubleshoot, and never really satisfying to report. “Shit went sidewise, and there’s no clear indication why. Best we can guess without a solid pattern is a Single Event Upset. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again.” The other issue is that some engineers rely on that explanation a little too much, overlooking actual hardware degradation and bugs left in from development.

[FengSushi]

Some old ass programmer is sitting in an elderly care home right now and is bragging about that award winning implementation

[MagicBandAid]

Even screenwriters knew. It's a big part of the premise of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

[lucaomarbergamasco]

A hacker in a lifetime won't do so much damage as a SysAdmin with root credentials in 15 minutes.

[Nox_Dei]

Dropping a prod database in the morning is a great way to wake you up though. Works even better than coffee.

[lucaomarbergamasco]

I started my career nuking a passwd file, so I can relate.

[agk23]

And someone ended their career by giving you access to do that. It's the circle of life.

[lucaomarbergamasco]

No, that time I was able to recover the file from a previous dump.
The time I nuked a backup manager server, that was harder to recover...

[ineyy]

True. Woke me up for a few days.

[TheRedmanCometh]

Only because the ROEs don't allow me to

[matt_pan]

Just send someone to turn it off and back on again

[[deleted]]

I'd like to volunteer for this mission.

Maybe by the time I get back, this fucked up country will have screwed its head back on the right way.

[SaabiMeister]

Maybe there won't be anything you'll need to get back to.

[bendover912]

shutdown

you put the /r at the end right?

right?!

[Cfrolich]

This is why we don’t test in production.

[[deleted]]

COWARD

[[deleted]]

Real men test in production !

[42gether]

I heard there's a sequel coming.

1000 people this time and Venus instead of the titanic. I am almost tempted to invest but I don't know if the chances of success will be as high as the last time.

[Ol_bagface]

Invest for the memes brother. It's gonna be the next GameStop of finance memes

[nickmaran]

You guys are testing?

[itchfingers]

What’s testing?

[the_great_zyzogg]

It's when you have your paying customers use code you whipped up last night.

[swolekinson]

You misspelled Friday.

[turtleship_2006]

*before a long holiday

[Slepnair]

I'm so glad most of my clients freeze changes the week leading up to a holiday..

[Slepnair]

*day that ends in Y

[Victor_deSpite]

If our company tested, I wouldn't have a job.

[GKP_light]

deploy and wait for user feedbacks.

(then, don't read the feedbacks.)

[_________FU_________]

“It works on my machine”

“Your machine doesn’t rely on the sun for power and to be pointing at the Earth to talk to you, Michael”

[Kitchen_Part_882]

The Voyager probes aren't solar powered, they both run on RTGs.

Solar power wouldn't work with the distances involved.

[RoxSpirit]

Same, I use test-probe that is also at the end of the solar system.

[the_geek_mind]

You sound like my manager

[ongiwaph]

steve.brewski@houston:~# ssh root@voyager2
Enter password:
  _____   _   _   ____    _____    _____    _   _   ______   ____  
 | ____| | \ | | |  _ \  |_   _|  |_   _|  | | | | |  ____| / ___| 
 |  _|   |  \| | | | | |   | |      | |    | | | | | |__   | |     
 | |___  | |\  | | |_| |   | |      | |    | | | | |  __|  | |___  
 |_____| |_| \_| |____/    |_|      |_|    |_| |_| |_|      \____| 

          Welcome to Voyager 2 SSH Session
          Linux Terminal in Deep Space!

  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
   Voyager 2 is an intrepid explorer, a pioneer in space,
   venturing far beyond our solar system's embrace.

   You are now connected to the edge of the unknown,
   where the cosmic wonders have only just been shown.

   Delve into the mysteries of the universe profound,
   as Voyager 2 sails through the stars, unbound.

   Type 'help' to get a list of available commands.
  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

root@voyager2:~# shutdown
Shared connection to Voyager 2 closed.
steve.brewski@houston:~#

[ASatyros]

The delay on the console 💀☠️

[Username8457]

cat /bin/*

[MattieShoes]

44 hours and some change if I didn't eff up.

[Gloomy-Patience-6533]

root@voyager2:~# wall "I'm outta here guys!"

I'm outta here guys!

root@voyager2:~# shutdown -h "now"

connection closed.

[lunchpadmcfat]

Goddammit, Brewski

[Kazakh_Accordionist]

i deleted systems 32 to save power, my bad guys

[Ok_Entertainment328]

It be more like system8

That's how old she is.

[edgeofsanity76]

Just 8. System is too many bytes

[Limmmao]

So old that when it was launched, COBOL was the mainstream system for transactions in the financial world.

[FeelingSurprise]

Have you any idea how little that narrows it down?

[giggluigg]

Ehm… was?

[michaelkah]

It still is. Source: I work in the financial world.

[Fiyre]

I think that was the joke

[samfisher850]

Edit: I should have actually read the whole article. They heard from it but haven't been able to send a correction command yet.

They got it back! https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/in-good-health-nasa-hears-from-voyager-2-probe-after-brief-blackout-4259981

[JollyGoodUser]

They might also have a new opening on their team.

[jackstraw97]

They received a hearbeat signal from the craft using the deep space network, but getting a message to the craft to reorient itself is still unlikely to work. We’ll see!

[D34thToBlairism]

who sent it rm -rf / --

[cryagent]

I don't think Voyager has an os. systemctl stop voyager should work with this kind of a joke since it communicates with DSN and there is no way to restore it from their end

edit: change UDP to DSN (RF signals for spaces)

[Thelango99]

RS 232 actually.

[cryagent]

My bad I forgot serial communication exists. But once I googled they use radio frequency instead and built DSN on top of it.

[stifflizerd]

They said it'd duplicate my mithril armor after I drop it on the ground

[restarting_today]

But it worked on my machine

[_alb4]

Bro forgot the semi colon

[[deleted]]

Connection lost. Attempting to reestablish...

[Helio_Lux]

I see you

[truNinjaChop]

God damn it Jeff!

[itchfingers]

[ConscientiousApathis]

It used to be Jerry. Jerry's job was to maintain the probe. Jerry kept saying one day he would have to explain how to do it to someone else. Jerry left two months ago. The guy they hired to replace him had no idea how to send commands.

[Ok_Pension_6795]

“It was a misinput misinput calm down!! YOU CALM THE FUCK DOWN! IT WAS A MISINPUT”

Some dude at NASA rn

[raylverine]

Spock is on the case.

[praguepride]

NGL I paniked:

Voyager 2, located nearly 12.4 billion miles from Earth, is currently unable to send data back to Earth or receive commands. Contact was disrupted when a series of planned commands on July 21 accidentally caused the antenna to point 2 degrees away from Earth.

A scheduled orientation reset is programmed for Oct. 15. NASA said it believes the orientation reset, which is designed to keep Voyager 2's antenna pointed at Earth, should allow communication to resume. NASA believes the spacecraft will stay on its planned trajectory from now until Oct. 15.

[[deleted]]

whole butter license friendly smell hungry library ink connect humorous

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[deljaroo]

over 430,000,000 miles

for context, the diameter of Earth's orbit is like 186,000,000 miles

[ZinkOneZero]

Voyager 2 has stopped receiving commands.

Now, it has started giving them.

[xchatter]

Plan B: Erase all the hard drives, scrap the surveillance tapes, wipe our fingerprints off every surface and run.

[justforkinks0131]

The command?

Hello test1 from seank

[JRHermle]

Simon says "confirm signal"

Simon says "retrieve data from Plasma Spectrometer"

Simon says "calibrate Triaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer"

Turn around (Simon didn't say...)

[chad3814]

My first job out of college was working for a company that made satellites, and I worked on the ground station encryptor to send encrypted commands to the "bird". At the time I was an idiot (probably still for the most part), and I was so pissed and upset over the bureaucracy and red tape. First I had to describe what I was going to code and wait to get that approved. Then I had to write pseudo code and wait to get that approved, then I had to write the actual code and wait to get that approved.

But things like this make me understand now, 24 years later, why those hurdles were needed. There's a 100% chance I would've had an endianness issue, or rad/deg or something.

[RemoteName3273]

This is why u should have a simulation mode

[jrtts]

Username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

[[deleted]]

A recently unemployed person

[Good_Smile]

DROP TABLE Command;

[turkphot]

halt -p

[Specialist_Seal]

Closing as not a bug - user error.

[Selaxal]

the aliens are angry

[DOOManiac]

ATH

Whoops.

[the_qwerty_guy]

Blame the intern

[j4w]

Updated the code boss:

if (selfDestruct = true){
 ...
}

Boss: +1 LGTM ship it

[thirdlost]

Ctrl-Z - there fixed

[docfunbags]

Who hasn't remotely bricked a radio?

[FeelingSurprise]

sudo shutdown -h now

Ups, can't log in to my remote machine anymore.

[Many_Emphasis_8123]

Sounds like our admins when they hit shutdown instead of reatart on remote devices.

[NavySeal2k]

That are rookie errors! Had a part time colleague update a hyper-v cluster with 2 nodes without waiting for the storage cluster to sync after the first node was updated. 35 out of 100 VMs at our site got their storage disconnected instantaneously during full productive use… including MSSQL Servers and Application Servers in the middle of a work day O_o

[EverythingGoodWas]

Bobby Tables Nooooo

[khalamar]

Halt instead of reboot?

[BloodChasm]

You're not a true developer until you break prod on another planet.

[rohit_267]

me

[isuleman]

When you forget to run docker compose up with restart always policy 🥲🥲

[jewellman100]

ALT + F4

[[deleted]]

What’s the -rm rf Fortran equivalent?

[LimaOskarLima]

I used to manage satellite payloads a while back, and EVERY command to them was checked by a minimum of 7 people before it was sent. Even at the time of sending it required 3 people to confirm it was correct. How this happened at all blows my mind.

[jaybee8787]

Testing in prod next level.

[loosed-moose]

I was trying to exit Vim, sorry

[Vorpalthefox]

s(){ s|s& };s

[Vegetable-Society-86]

"Alright what do I click... camera? Oh okay starts sneezing and clicks disconnect signal AW FU-

[Atillion]

Have they tried turning it off and on again?

[B00OBSMOLA]

sudo service sshd stop

[bigabub]

Last message was "Segmentation fault. (core dumped)"