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Voyager 1 (mander.xyz)
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[–] 53 points 2 years ago (9 children)

My understanding is that they sent V'Ger a command to do "something," and then the gibberish it was sending changed, and that was the "here's everything" signal.

And yeah, I'm calling it V'Ger from now on.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They specifically sent it a command to send a full memory dump after it went haywire. It wasn't a fluke.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    Sure - I didn't know what "something" was. And what I'd read was that someone had to figure out that they were receiving a full memory dump, which suggested to me that they hadn't specifically asked for that.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    And yeah, I'm calling it V'Ger from now on

    Have my upvote.

    Why haven't we been doing this already? I'm with you, let's make this happen!

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Only so long as we ensure we keep a stable humpback whale population. I don't wanna be the guy that has to figure out how to make a temporal slingshot maneuver work.

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