Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/03/07/voyager-1-has-serious-problem-still-transmitting-gibberish.html
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I’ve got a bad feeling about how this might play out.
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64 kB of memory.
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Exactly. Gibberish or becoming sentient?
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I’m pretty sure the code comments include ‘Here thar be dragons’. Code from 1977, holy crap. Heck, this whole thing is beyond imagining. A tiny ship never designed to last this long, a bajillion miles (that’s an actual astronomic unit, bajillion) away transmitting on almost no power and we’re trying to reprogram it from here. A-freaking-mazing.
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With a roughly 2-day communication latency rate thanks to that bajillion mile distance.
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Is it experiencing “cognitive decline”?
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And 37 hours to see a result after an entry.
It would even suck to write an old school “Hello World” basic program on that scale.
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well, when you think about it - voyager is a hello world program!
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only the best worst jokes around here 
dunno tho if gilese 445 has any actual planets or not … ( and 40,000 years is quite a while from now. )
Gibberish? Or perhaps ALIEN LANGUAGE. Duh.
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Clearly speaking with its new alien overlords.
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If gibberish, V1 has entered an unknown part of interstellar space yet to be described. Call it… Trumpian Space.
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That’s like calling my company’s IT support with an emergency issue.
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V*GER needs the inoculation.
Transmitting gibberish, you say? Hmmm…
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With the age & distance of Voyager, we should be praising the fact that we’re still getting a recognisable signal.
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Quick, get Rab C. Nesbitt out to NASA.
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