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An out-of-this-world theory for Voyager's trouble

NASA would have us believe it's a software problem: Ha!

By Paul McNamara on Wed, 05/12/10 - 10:15am.

Knowing that the vast majority of you are computer professionals of one sort or another, I am sure that you had this very same thought when you heard that Voyager was transmitting data back to NASA in an indecipherable format:

Must be aliens.

NASA would have us believe it has something to do with "a bit flip."

That's what they always say.

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