• PhAzE@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Literally a bad memory chip, something completely normal with PCs on earth too. Spooky.

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        3 months ago

        Yes, 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.

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            See, the truth is, Voyager doesn’t exist anymore, it hit the edge of our universe and it’s the aliens responding, trying to learn our programming language. That’s why it’s garbled right now.

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              That’s false. Voyager ceased to exist the moment it was launched off god’s beautiful green flat earth.