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She loves rock n roll Yeah The girl’s high voltage
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What time do I need to be there 😍
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How you’ll be greeted at Truist
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Her son will be with her and he’s 3 so clubs are out 😂
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Just looking for must have eat spots
She has west coast stadiums left on her list after Rogers
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That’s the desk HW Bush used when he signed ADA
THE FUCKING AUDACITY
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Dude this would be fucking awesome
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Braves gonna win it all
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Who do you really trust to carry the next message in a bottle?
And will anyone be left listening when it comes back?
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So take a moment. While you’re busy tearing down the people who built this little traveler, and cheering for the guy setting off fireworks in the sandbox, and scattering flaming debris in the ocean, maybe ask yourself:
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Somehow, folks are out there ready to throw that away
To hand the keys to future in space
to a man who treats rocket science
like a game of asteroids
blowing things up because he’s too impatient to test
too arrogant to listen
and too reckless to care who gets hit by the fallout.
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This machine, this remarkable improbable thing
is the result of brilliant minds working together
It was built by some of the finest engineers this country has ever produced
guided by the quiet persistence of public service
and paid for by a government
that once dared to dream big
and deliver
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But time still takes its toll. To stretch the mission’s life even further, NASA has started turning off some of its instruments, piece by piece. In early 2025, they powered down one of its cosmic ray detectors—one more sacrifice to buy a little more time.
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After nearly half a century in flight, the little machine remembered how to speak
It’s sending back data again
whispers from a place no other human-made object has ever been
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And then, it worked.
By early 2024, they found the problem: a chunk of its aging memory, had gone bad
So they rewrote its software, moving critical code to a safer place in its ancient circuits
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For months, the team at NASA worked patiently, sending careful commands one at a time. Each message was a thread, cast out across billions of miles, hoping to stitch the connection back together. They waited—a day there, a day back—each attempt like speaking to a ghost in the dark
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Then something went wrong. An instruction one of so many caused it to forget how to talk to us
Because its mind, cobbled together from tech older than most of us, got scrambled. Like a scratched-up record that skips the important parts, it sent back gibberish we couldn’t make sense of
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This old traveler has drifted beyond the warmth of the Sun’s protection, into the cold and quiet between stars. And yet, despite the distance, NASA’s engineers have kept in touch. Whispering across the void. Listening for whispers back.
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Temptations bucket shake usually works
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She’s 3 next month! 🫣😭
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How much money did he lose gambling during that stretch though
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I was mostly unplugged for NOLA Mardi Gras
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Been too long for dance updates Susan! I have to keep checking over here (I keep forgetting that stuff is happening over here now)
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Just wait
One day they just start talking
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Mine is 3 in 2 months
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🥳
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Dazed and Confused was released in 1993, about a day in 1976. A comparable movie released in 2025 would be set in . . . 2008
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Win for everyone involved!
You go Popehat, show em how it’s done (procrastination can pay off sometimes).