It’s no use!

I think you’re dramatically overestimating how much people want to discuss politics with a stranger who slides into their mentions pointing out logical fallacies.

“My battery is low and it’s getting dark.”

What are you talking about?

I still cannot believe NASA managed to re-establish a connection with Voyager 1.

That scene from The Martian where JPL had a hardware copy of Pathfinder on Earth? That’s not apocryphal. NASA keeps a lot of engineering models around for a variety of purposes including this sort of hardware troubleshooting.

It’s a practice they started after Voyager. They shot that patch off into space based off of old documentation, blueprints, and internal memos.

Zac Gorman’s comic with the original dialog: https://magicalgametime.com/post/48470399171

The two hardest problems in computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors.

I’ve slowly been coming to terms with the fact that my most enduring legacy on the internet is going to be tweeting a screenshot of my local library’s Facebook page.

Someone made this into a comic! https://mythjae.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/fated-3/