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NASA's longest-running spacecraft Voyager 1 is sending information back to Earth again for the first time since November.

Scientists have managed to fix a problem on the probe, which was launched 46 years ago, after five months of silence.

On 14 November last year, Voyager 1 stopped sending usable data back to Earth, even though scientists could tell it was still receiving their commands and working well otherwise.

 

3 minutes ago, Genie said:

I can play Fifa or COD and have my actions repeated on someone else’s TV on the other side of the world in a fraction of a second, but football streams still lag by 2 or 3 minutes. I am also surprised this delay still exists.

I was watching the Bournemouth game and my mates were laughing at West Ham on WhatsApp , so i fired up the Sky Sports app to see what their score was , only to see that Villa were 2-1 up , when on my feed it was 1-1 and Bournemouth were attacking 

Rookie error by me , but at least I was able to bundle in on the West Ham abuse on WhatsApp so a small win 

26 minutes ago, bickster said:

Happy Shakespeare's birth and death day to you (at least he was English and didn't slay a mythical beast)

The dragon myth was invented by a Frenchmen  , make of that what you will  

Happy St George’s day Villa Talk 

Comfortable really , Bournemouth came at us rather than park 11 men behind the ball and we can be  brutal at picking teams off that play that way 

solid performances all round , Konsa was immense though and a shout out to Rogers also

McGinn over run the ball a few times at the edge of our box and nearly caused  us problems but no real concerns other than that

We are so close now , hopefully we can keep the momentum coming for a few more weeks 

Ha , Onana gets two yellow cards in the game … guess what , he’s allowed to play in the final , FA have different rules to UEFA

spawny manc rocket polishers 

That will be Solanke going to the euros then 

17 minutes ago, dubbs said:

Just come back from seeing Brain of J at The Robin.  Really good Pearl Jam tribute act.  The lead singer took Eddie off really well, great voice and the lead guitarist Jack can seriously play!

Yeah I saw them last year excellent set  over 2 hours and think it was something like £12 a ticket … went with MrsH29 who was never a fan of PJ but is now on the strength of this gig 

they are back at the Water Rats in London later this year so I’ll be seeing them again then 

1 hour ago, DeepDish said:

Thinking that maybe we want Chelsea to draw in this match and lose in extra time or even better penalties. Might be the disappointment that end their season and form.

Radio 5 phone in  has some people saying Poch should be gone on Monday 

let’s hope we don’t face a new manager bounce

11 minutes ago, Xela said:

I've got sauces in the cupboard that have seen 4x Prime Ministers. 

Did they come around for tea or did you take the sauces out on outings with you ? 

Vote passes

36 minutes ago, GingerCollins29 said:

Win 5-1 but the world's best striker doesnt score 

Tbf even the best strikers in the world can’t score when they aren’t even on the pitch 

He almost seems to have a resigned smile on his face when’s he’s taken off each time like he knows it’s coming 

he seems popular with the players and staff but for some reason is just lacking a bit of confidence , hopefully it’s nothing that can’t be fixed with a bit more time 

I’ll be the first to admit a season or two ago asking my mate “what’s the point of a winger who can’t beat a man and can’t cross a ball “… obviously I was talking about Bailey … but I won’t make the same mistake with Diaby , his time will come  

6 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

Yeah but that’s not time wasting. It’s not like they’d have run out of time and only been able to take 9 penalties. There’s no clock ticking 

I suppose the irony is had Emi not shit housed Bentaleb , he might have taken his miss more gracefully and not booted the ball away in frustration and thus Emi wouldn’t have been having to ask a ball boy for a football which apparently constitutes a bookable offence 

but sadly I’m resigned to Olsen being in goal now and just praying that isn’t going to cost us 

33 minutes ago, Kiwivillan said:

Loads of clubs you think will sign our players are also on tipping point of PSR "allegedly" 

Exactly

We would want £100m for Ollie 

No club is spending that on him , and certainly not Arsenal who don’t have that sort of money to spend unless they have a Saudi partner who will buy one of their older carthorses for £60m 

Two wins guarantees 5th and at worse Europa league

beyond that we just have to match Spurs results whilst keeping our goal difference better than theirs 

they have Burnley and Sheff U as bankers their other fixtures all look potentially like loses , but alas football doesn’t work like that 

3 wins could just about do it , but I’ve given up trying to predict who we will beat , it would be just like Villa to beat Liverpool but lose to Bournemouth 

12 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

And there’s a Big Country album (Why The Long Face) as part of Record Store Day schizz, and unbelievably it appears to be fairly sensibly priced.

It’s seen as one of their weaker albums (pipe down @bickster  ) but I still give it a spin at work from time to time 

Funnily enough at the time I saw them promote this album  in HMV on Oxford street as I happened to be working in the area that day and walked by and saw a stage area being setup so popped in for a look 

New James album arrived this morning will be giving that a spin

It’s actually just become their first ever number one album ( excluding the greatest hits one) , beating Beyoncé into the number 2 spot ….42 years in the making 

they also went down the record shop and live gig with a copy of the album route that Shed Seven did to achieve their first number one album …. It’s a great way to beat the system rigged for the major acts , hope it continues ( also means I get to see James playing at Pryzm in Kingston later this year )

3 hours ago, Follyfoot said:

Being linked with Liverpool my lad just said he heard on the radio

 

Ruben Amorim is going there by all accounts , so I think we can rule that one out 

1 minute ago, sharkyvilla said:

Sadly I've never known a yellow card to get rescinded other than when the ref's booked the wrong player.  It's **** stupid but I'd be very surprised if they did anything.  I think this is just Emi's reputation coming back to bite him on the bum, allied with an absolute scissors abortion of a referee.

there's enough video evidence I would have thought  ... a lot will depend on the refs report  , but for the Ssshhh motion the ref just gave him a  talking to  and he didn't argue with the ref or remonstrate with him  , so my take would be that the booking was for a new offence after the warning  , that offence clearly being picked up on camera of there being no ball on the field of play and him asking for a ball 

nothing to lose in appealing the second yellow .. if its a bookable offence to ask the ball boy for a football then we might as well give up and go home 

6 hours ago, OutByEaster? said:

Israel has chosen retaliation over international diplomacy, Netanyahu has chosen domestic interest over international interest. So now we're on the edge of a really dangerous war with the international community pushed into a corner on whether they prefer abandoning an ally that's gone batshit crazy or starting world war III. What could possibly go wrong?

 

Israel were very selective with their targets and Iran have kinda denied it happened 

Iran are like one of those people that pick a fight on the little kid at school and then find out he's got a black belt in Judo or something and now want to pretend that they've let him off with a warning  

edit - or now I've read the rest of the thread ....  what Bicks wrote