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NASA's 46-year-old Voyager 1 probe is no longer transmitting data (www.livescience.com)
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[–] snooggums@kbin.social -3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Unreadable data is still data.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Is mayonnaise data?

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is made of lots of little bytes of mayonnaise.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Quantum mayonnaise theory.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm a fan of the many jars interpretation

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not unreadable. It's not data.

If you want to be pedantic you could say it's "transmitting symbols".

If I only typed out "abaababababbaab" over and over you wouldn't call it "unreadable words." You'd say it's not words.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Omg, you can't just type "abaababababbaab" on the internet you filthy animal!