Looks like it wasnt aliens after all. And I was so sure that
German "academic" Hartwig Hausdorf was correct given his vast knowledge and technical experience in astronautics, signal processing, and computer systems. Just as well he has his
travel agency to fall back upon. Does anyone know why this man was described as an academic, or did the journalists just not bother to check?
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One flip of a bit in the memory of an onboard computer appears to have caused the change in the science data pattern returning from Voyager 2, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Monday, May 17. A value in a single memory location was changed from a 0 to a 1.
On May 12, engineers received a full memory readout from the flight data system computer, which formats the data to send back to Earth. They isolated the one bit in the memory that had changed, and they recreated the effect on a computer at JPL. They found the effect agrees with data coming down from the spacecraft. They are planning to reset the bit to its normal state on Wednesday, May 19.
Jonny
The path to good scholarship is paved with imagined patterns. - David M Raup
