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Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth (edition.cnn.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced a computer glitch that’s causing a bit of a communication breakdown between the 46-year-old probe and its mission team on Earth.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (3 children)

When the new intern presses shut down instead of disconnect while connected to the production server

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“No! No! Log out you fool! No! Don’t shut it down oh god he shut it down”

“Told you we should have greyed that out”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Never forget to QA test for stupid user errors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is there any other kind of user

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The question then is why the intern has access to the shut down button.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Management got one IT guy managing the whole infrastructure so everyone who needs anything gets domain admin rights

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

His GPA was stellar

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Ah, time to reconfigure the IP address. Just set that, and *click* bring down network port, and *click* bring it up again... *click* ... *click* ... oh.

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