[ComputerGuy]

...Feeling its age...

I sense a fellow traveler.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The Voyager is 14.6 billion miles away and NASA can talk to it and control it.

I can see the cellular tower light blinking from a distant hilltop and yet can't get a phone signal.

[butlerweave]

Glitch , reminds me of the The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 2015 movie ,LOL

[Yo-Yo]

Glitch? You mean the hair thing?

[Ezekiel]

The fix involved telling the AACS to switch back to the correct computer for sending data.

While the solution sounds simple, the glitch hints at the possibility of a deeper problem. Engineers don't know why the glitch cropped up in the first place, but another computer sending a faulty command could be the culprit.

Cheatsheet.com:

12 of the Most Evil Movie Computers

[P.O.E.]

Can’t remember why it went out there in the first place?

[Magnatron]

NASA Solves Mystery Glitch on '70s Vintage Voyager 1 Spacecraft

Oh they say that NOW.

Wait til it come back with a chip on its shoulder…

[Lazamataz]

Hey, if there’s a problem, just send a repairman.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

When that thing was engineered, a lot of us were still using slide rules. An HP handheld calculator was still like magic.

[packrat35]

Star Trek the movie may have been prophetic.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[SunkenCiv]

• NASA receives response from Voyager 1 spacecraft 13 billion miles away after 37 years of inactivity [03/29/2018]
• NASA Gets Response From Spacecraft 13 Billion Miles Away [03/18/2018]
• Voyager 1 Just Fired Up its Backup Thrusters for the 1st Time in 37 Years [12/02/2017]

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• NASA Voyager 2 is receiving commands from Earth again [11/03/2020]

[JJBookman]

“...my mind is going Dave, I can feel it”!

[G Larry]

Call Dr. Roger Burke, he'll explain it all. He worked at JPL (Cal Tech) and managed the early phases of the program.

I took a couple of Graduate classes from him in the late 70's at an off-site USC campus.

Last I checked he was retired, living near a Utah ski slope

[Chode]

could be worse...

(Doolittle) “Bomb, this is Lt. Doolittle. You are not to detonate in the bomb bay. I repeat, you are NOT to detonate in the bomb bay.”

(Doolittle) “Hello, Bomb? Are you with me?”
(Bomb #20) “Of course.”
(Doolittle) “Are you willing to entertain a few concepts?”
(Bomb #20) “I am always receptive to suggestions.”
(Doolittle) “Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist?”
(Bomb #20) “Well, of course I exist.”
(Doolittle) “But how do you know you exist?”
(Bomb #20) “It is intuitively obvious.”
(Doolittle) “Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist?”
(Bomb #20) “Hmmmm — well — I think, therefore I am.”
(Doolittle) “That’s good. That’s very good. But how do you know that anything else exists?”
(Bomb #20) “My sensory apparatus reveals it to me. This is fun.”

(Unnamed) “All right, bomb. Prepare to receive new orders.”
(Bomb#20) “You are false data.”
(Unnamed) “Hmmm?”
(Bomb #20) “Therefore I shall ignore you.”
(Unnamed) “Hello — bomb?”
(Bomb #20) “False data can act only as a distraction. Therefore, I shall refuse to perceive.”
(Unnamed) “Hey, bomb?”
(Bomb #20) “The only thing that exists is myself.”
(Unnamed) “Snap out of it, bomb.”

(Bomb#20) “In the beginning, there was darkness. And the darkness was without form, and void.”
(Boiler) “What the hell is he talking about?”
(Bomb#20) “And in addition to the darkness there was also me. And I moved upon the face of the darkness. And I saw that I was alone. Let there be light.”

[Bratch]

[Vaduz]

Engineers don’t know why the glitch cropped up in the first place.

Huge solar storms for the last week and a half?.

We are be getting hit with them this week again.

[dfwgator]

[Glad2bnuts]

There is a movie “Voyager”?

[Libloather]

Ctl-alt-del