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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 129 points 7 months ago (6 children)

That thing literally has less intelligence than your toaster, so let's not get overly agitated, shall we?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 129 points 7 months ago (4 children)

So you're saying I should be more frightened of my toaster.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 55 points 7 months ago (3 children)

He's definitely up to something.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

Frakkin' toasters.

[–] astraeus@programming.dev 18 points 7 months ago

Brave little guy

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[–] PennyJim@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Who knows when it'll decide controlled fire isn't enough anymore

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Only if it goes to space. It won't become sentient in your kitchen.

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

If your toaster is automatic beyond belief, you should be in awe but not afraid, for this alien technology bestowed upon us by the ancients is benevolent and incorruptible.

But a modern toaster? That could kill you in your sleep!

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[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So you're basically saying it's a cosmic entity from galaxies away that has been lurking for aeons in the empty shadows of space, thirsting for sentient life, and it has been attracted in our vicinity by our foolish experiments, gotcha.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've put you down as the first blood sacrifice.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago

Don't mind if I do 🥰

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[–] antidote101@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

It's just a creative way to express a fantasy, in actual fact circuits left running that long in outter space that has random electron radiation passing through it is bound to degrade over time...

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[–] Summzashi@lemmy.one 74 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Playing elite dangerous made me realize how relatively close Voyager still is and will be for millenia to come. It's hardly in the "depts of space"

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's still significantly closer than Hutton Orbital.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

lmao we should just start measuring distances in reference to Hutton Orbital

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I flew all the way out there and couldn't even land at the station because my ship was too large. Fml

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 8 points 7 months ago

What a waste. If you landed, you could have had a free Anaconda LOL

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Really? I have it on good authority that an Anaconda can land there...

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[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Relatively close compared to star systems? Yeah. Relatively close compared to planets? No

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[–] uis@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Voyager just needs Fuel Rats

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[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Have you guys considered the possibility that an intelligence intercepted the probe and are sending responses through it.

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not until you made this comment...now I can't un-consider it.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 points 7 months ago

This makes sense once you accept that Oumuamua was a corpolite

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Call me when I don't have to go to work the next day, until then I'm too poor to care about alien messages. Come here and solve my problems or shut up.

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[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 42 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The Eldritchen horrors that we saw are not the reason that... uh I mean, there is no such thing as... uh I mean it was a technical glitch, I swear!

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[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

The adjective you're looking for is "Eldritchenishese".

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[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Literally a bad memory chip, something completely normal with PCs on earth too. Spooky.

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It lasted almost 50 years and you say "something completely normal"?

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, ram has little tiny switches that flip horizontal or vertical, to reflect a 1 or 0, and those can wear down over time. Crappy ram dies in a few years or less, some last for decades.

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nah dude, the void stared back, the void stared back. The probe got probed man. That Nichey guy prophesied all this.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

See, the truth is, Voyager doesn't exist anymore, it hit the edge of our universe and it's the aliens responding, trying to learn our programming language. That's why it's garbled right now.

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[–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There are 50+ year old computers running on earth too

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Space horror enthusiasts offer an alternate theory...

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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 7 months ago (2 children)

just release the voyager technobabble to the internet, some space and comp sci nerd somewhere, or 300, because realistically, it's going to be a bunch of people will decode it and figure out exactly what the hardware problem is. Within a few months.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

NASA figured it out recently. A particular piece of memory became corrupted for some reason. They're developing a workaround.

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Conspiracy theory speedrun any%

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[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 7 months ago (4 children)
[–] Fallenwout@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago
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[–] Sorgan71@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is NO brain inside voyager 1 that will be turned back into a normal human by an alien race and then come up with a fairy tale that really is a coded message that surreptitiously describes advanced alien technology though symbolism.

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[–] ghostblackout@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Nothing it can't see anymore the cameras got turned off along time ago

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It doesn't need cameras to see the terrifying existential horrors that penetrate its memory banks.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

I would imagine there is enough cosmic radiation outside our heliosphere to easily fry silicon components from that time period

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

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Ok... I don't care about spoilers, if we are getting "cosmic horror" in the future seasons of "planet earth 20**" just let me know now.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

when aliens, say it is noise

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

It gazed upon infinity and found it lacking

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