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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 53 points 6 months ago (4 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.

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 20 points 6 months ago (1 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!

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Abundance-estimates-of-humpback-whales-from-mark-recapture-off-California-and-Oregon_fig2_235065144

This seems to be positive news on that front.

Are we really gonna have to have a time travel based Star Trek Movie for all the species out there to manage to get around to fixing climate change?

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From what I read there was damage to the memory in certain places so they've had to move the code into spare places in memory.

It's an astounding feat tbh.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 months ago

One specific chip had damaged memory