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julianh, w Voyager 1 is fully back online months after it stopped making sense.

It’s insane what these people do. They’re rewriting code from the 60s to use even less memory, have to test it in production without physical access, and it takes two days to see if anything changes. It’s an insane piece of engineering and it’s incredible that it’s still sending useful data.

Serinus,

I’d love to see what their test environments are like. You can’t test everything, but they can certainly test some things. A raspberry pi has more software capability.

magikmw,

They have a second probe in the shop to test. Thankfully.

junderwood, w Voyager 1 is fully back online months after it stopped making sense.
neurospice, w Voyager 1 is fully back online months after it stopped making sense.

Incredible! Can’t believe how long it’s been functioning for and how many obstacles it’s overcome. Truly a testament of human engineering

original_reader, (edited ) w Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?

What are we going to name it when it is found?

I trust we really don’t want “Planet Nine” (if we do, we should rename Earth to “Planet 3”), let alone “Planet X”. Any better ideas?

HubertManne,

pluto was called planet X until it was discovered

KISSmyOSFeddit,

Let’s call this one Planet Twitter, just to annoy Elon.

thebardingreen,
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If Mike Brown finds it, he’ll jump all over naming it, and I’m sure that’s part of his motivation for hunting it so doggedly. He’s like that.

Daxtron2,

It will likely be a Greek or Roman name in keeping with tradition. The IAU generally let’s the person/group that discovers have an influence in the decision but they’re the final say on the name.

lvxferre,

With two exceptions*, the names are from Roman mythology. So I’d expect the new planet to get a definitive name from the same template. (Please be Janus. It’s the gate of the solar system!)

*Uranus is from Greek mythology, with no good Latin equivalent. Terra is trickier; you could argue that it fits the template for Latin and the Romance languages, but most others simply use local words for soil, without a connection to the goddess. That is also called Tellus to add confusion.

YungOnions,

Tellus would be a cool name for a planet, imo.

lvxferre,

It would, indeed. I wouldn’t mind if it was the scientific/“proper” name for Earth.

Murdoc,

I would; it’s too close to Telus (but pronounced the same), a terrible phone company where I live.

lvxferre,

How do you pronounce the company name? For reference, Latin “Tellus” would be /tɛllu:s/; the nearest English equivalent would be “TELL loos”, I guess.

Murdoc,

Tell-us, so more like it looks I guess.

collapse_already,

I think they should call it Nibiru to feed the conspiracy theories.

thebardingreen,
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I had a roomate ten years ago who seriously believed in all that crap. Lizard people from the edge of the solar system here to claim our gold.

Ghyste, w Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?

No.

JackGreenEarth,

Batterige, or whoever it is’s, law of headlines ig

deezbutts,

Godwin

Ghyste,

Betterige is correct.

KISSmyOSFeddit, (edited ) w Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?

BAH GOD IT’S PLUTO WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
HE’S CLEARING HIS ORBIT!

Olap, w Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?

Surely the absence of nine indicates our model of gravity is off. Combined with lack of Dark Matter, is Einstein wrong?

Iheartcheese, w Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?
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Pluto 2 electric boogaloo

Zachariah,
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homesweethomeMrL, w Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?

Planet Nine from Outer Space

. . . I’ll show myself out

Zachariah,
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slazer2au, w The sun's magnetic field is about to flip. Here's what to expect.

This phenomenon happens roughly every 11 years and marks an important stage in the solar cycle.

How does it affect us?

It doesn’t.

cynar,

We get a maxima in solar storm activity. This can cause solar flares that can knock out satellites. They can even mess with power transmission lines, if they hit hard enough.

So it won’t affect you, if you don’t use power, or data via satellite.

Etterra,

Yeah, nothing cool ever dooms us all.

padjakkels, w The sun's magnetic field is about to flip. Here's what to expect.
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That title is click bait

Moghul, w Congressional letter asks NASA to rescind Chandra cuts

No problem, just give them the money. 😀 👍

threelonmusketeers,

Congressional letter asks NASA to rescind Chandra cuts"

''NASA letter asks Congress to rescind NASA cuts"

“No U”

alyqz, w Mystery object waits nearly an hour between radio bursts

So maybe a binary system causing the signal to only periodically wobble into earth’s path wile missing for mist of it?

downpunxx, w The Hubble Space Telescope has lost a majority of its gyroscopes

ground control to major tom, your circuits dead, there's something wrong, can you hear me major tom

XTL,

We can’t really say that we’re

Surprised

It’s a shame

There’s always something that gets compromised

lvxferre, w A New Deep Learning Algorithm Can Find Earth 2.0

This is what machine learning is useful for. Not to try to convince you that oranges are active and potatoes are passive, or to give you a thumbs up with 7~8 fingers. But to detect patterns and allow automation of repetitive tasks.

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