That thing literally has less intelligence than your toaster, so let's not get overly agitated, shall we?
133 2 ReplySo you're saying I should be more frightened of my toaster.
131 0 ReplyHe's definitely up to something.
55 0 ReplyWho knows when it'll decide controlled fire isn't enough anymore
19 0 ReplyOnly if it goes to space. It won't become sentient in your kitchen.
12 0 ReplyIf 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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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.
26 0 ReplyI've put you down as the first blood sacrifice.
7 0 ReplyAlastair Reynolds fan, too?
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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...
13 1 ReplyDoes anyone want any toast?
7 1 ReplyA waffle man!
Might’ve changed our minds in the meantime…
Ahaha
4 0 ReplyBeat me to it
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2 0 ReplyMy toaster is not a "smart appliance", so, no.
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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"
74 0 ReplyIt's still significantly closer than Hutton Orbital.
31 0 Replylmao we should just start measuring distances in reference to Hutton Orbital
21 0 ReplyI flew all the way out there and couldn't even land at the station because my ship was too large. Fml
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Relatively close compared to star systems? Yeah. Relatively close compared to planets? No
8 0 ReplyAlso to planets. Our solar system is pretty small. Again, relatively speaking.
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Voyager just needs Fuel Rats
6 0 ReplyAt first I thought you meant Star Trek Voyager. Fits too.
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Have you guys considered the possibility that an intelligence intercepted the probe and are sending responses through it.
56 5 ReplyNot until you made this comment...now I can't un-consider it.
43 2 ReplyThis makes sense once you accept that Oumuamua was a corpolite
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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.
8 0 Reply... Is it working?
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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!
42 0 ReplyThe adjective you're looking for is "Eldritchenishese".
8 0 ReplyThe Eldritch horrors beyond comprehension are nothing compared to the combined power of a trench shotgun wielding maniac and a monster fucker.
1 0 ReplyHow do we know though that that is not how they calmly & casually just say "hello" in their world? :-P
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Literally a bad memory chip, something completely normal with PCs on earth too. Spooky.
38 0 ReplyIt lasted almost 50 years and you say "something completely normal"?
10 1 ReplyYes, 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.
19 0 ReplyThere are 50+ year old computers running on earth too
7 0 ReplyUnprecedented yet normal 🤷🏻♀️
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Space horror enthusiasts offer an alternate theory...
8 0 ReplyIt saw the Squamous Sun.
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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.
35 0 ReplyNASA figured it out recently. A particular piece of memory became corrupted for some reason. They're developing a workaround.
31 0 Replyof course nasa figures it out, i would venture to say it's probably the being in space for the period of about 50 years aspect of it, that had something to do with it.
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Conspiracy theory speedrun any%
11 0 Replyfuck yeah, here we come!
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32 0 ReplyV'ger
22 0 ReplyWhat movie/tv show is this from?
5 0 ReplyThe first Star Trek movie back in the 70s. It also gave us disco suit McCoy.
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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.
28 1 ReplySo not a fourth body problem. Got it.
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Nothing it can't see anymore the cameras got turned off along time ago
27 0 ReplyIt doesn't need cameras to see the terrifying existential horrors that penetrate its memory banks.
20 0 ReplySame
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It's fine, it just uses it's sensetive barbels to scour deep space for morsels of data
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17 0 ReplyQuite a terrific cube you've got there
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I would imagine there is enough cosmic radiation outside our heliosphere to easily fry silicon components from that time period
15 0 ReplyOk... 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.
12 0 Replywhen aliens, say it is noise
9 1 ReplyIt gazed upon infinity and found it lacking
7 0 ReplyMarv, pull up SCP-2669 please.
5 0 ReplyThere is nothing more eldritch than cosmic rays.
4 0 ReplyCorruption on computing technology is nothing new and will probably always exist.
5 1 ReplyIt's the start of that one TNG episode.
4 0 Replyfirst star trek movie would fit well too, they've even nailed the name
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Imagine voyager would've been a HP printer...
2 0 ReplyIt's funny how the 4chan wojak maymay have gained normie acceptance. As we say; kek.
4 8 ReplyROFL! People actually believe this? This isn’t satire?
3 16 ReplyDo you understand the concept of a meme?
29 0 ReplyI meant the person who made the meme. Not the people in the comments. Not all memes are parody you know.
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The joke is that is funny to think about the hypothetical situation that a space probe is acting weird because it has an existential crisis
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