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Hacker Takes Over Numbers Station For Rickrolls And Memes

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Buzzer is a Russian military station currently haunted by radio pirates:

Mysterious Russian shortwave radio station UVB-76, known as The Buzzer, normally broadcasts nothing but indecipherable beeps and numbers. But recently it has started to take music requests and post memes, after hackers seemingly took control of the channel for their own purposes. "Aboba" a voice repeatedly said over the station earlier today, before proceeding to blast Russian rave music.

The Buzzer, a Russian numbers station in use since the Cold War, became a sensation on the internet in the late 2000s thanks to 4Chan, and ever since people have wondered about the channel's origins and purpose. It's been especially good fodder for online creepypasta and paranormal enthusiasts because of the mysterious voices that occasionally read out nonsensical chains of numbers and words.

This week, however, it was home to Guy Fawkes masks, Discord pings, and Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up," as listeners gathered around YouTube streams for The Buzzer to witness the ghostly mashup.

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NASA’s Mars Ingenuity Drone Almost Crashed Due to Camera Glitch

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NASA's Mars Ingenuity drone survived a close call that could have ended in disaster. During its sixth flight, a glitch in its camera image delivery pipeline caused the drone's onboard navigation system to malfunction.

In order to explain what happened, it's crucial to first understand how the Ingenuity drone estimates its flight path and motion. While in the air, the drone keeps track of its motion by using an onboard inertial measurement unit (IMU) that measures Ingenuity's accelerations and rotational rates. Extrapolated, it's able to use this information to estimate where it is, how fast it is moving, and how it is oriented in space. NASA says that the onboard control system reacts to the estimated motions by adjusting control inputs at a rate of 500 times per second.

NASA also says that if the Ingenuity relied entirely on this system though, it would not be very accurate.

"Errors would quickly accumulate, and the helicopter would eventually lose its way," Håvard Grip, Ingenuity's Chief Pilot at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explains. "To maintain better accuracy over time, the IMU-based estimates are nominally corrected on a regular basis, and this is where Ingenuity’s navigation camera comes in."

During a majority of the time it is in the air, Ingenuity's downward-facing navigation cameras take 30 pictures a second of the surface and feeds that stream into the navigation computer.

This image of Mars was taken from the height of 33 feet (10 meters) by NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter during its sixth flight, on May 22, 2021. | Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

"Each time an image arrives, the navigation system’s algorithm performs a series of actions," Grip details. "First, it examines the timestamp that it receives together with the image in order to determine when the image was taken. Then, the algorithm makes a prediction about what the camera should have been seeing at that particular point in time, in terms of surface features that it can recognize from previous images taken moments before (typically due to color variations and protuberances like rocks and sand ripples). Finally, the algorithm looks at where those features actually appear in the image. The navigation algorithm uses the difference between the predicted and actual locations of these features to correct its estimates of position, velocity, and attitude."

It's this pipeline of images that suffered a glitch that put the entire system in jeopardy. About 54 seconds into the flight, that image pipeline suffered an error that caused it to drop a single photo from that 30 photos per second pipeline. While it lost that one photo, more importantly, that loss caused the ensuing photos to come in with an improper timestamp.

"From this point on, each time the navigation algorithm performed a correction based on a navigation image, it was operating on the basis of incorrect information about when the image was taken. The resulting inconsistencies significantly degraded the information used to fly the helicopter, leading to estimates being constantly “corrected” to account for phantom errors," Grip says. "Large oscillations ensued."

You can watch the last 29 seconds of the Ingenuity's flight in the clip below:

https://mars.nasa.gov/system/video_items/6021_PIA24598-IngenuityFlightSix.m4v

Luckily, despite this error, Ingenuity was able to safely touch down on the surface within 16 feet of its intended landing location. Grip says that one reason it was able to do so was because of the efforts the engineers of the drone's flight control team put into the programming. Ingenuity has ample "stability margin" that was designed to allow it to tolerate significant errors without crashing, which luckily included errors that would come as the result of poor timing.

Additionally, Grip says that the decision to stop using the navigation camera images as part of the algorithm during the final phase of descent paid off. The team chose this design decision because they believed it would ensure a smooth and continuous set of estimates of the helicopter's motion during the landing phase. Because of this, the errors that were coming from the camera no longer affected the drone once it started its landing procedure.

This image of Ingenuity was taken on May 23, 2021 – the day after its sixth flight – by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard the Perseverance Mars rover. | Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

"Ingenuity ignored the camera images in the final moments of flight, stopped oscillating, leveled its attitude, and touched down at the speed as designed," Grip says.

"Looking at the bigger picture, Flight Six ended with Ingenuity safely on the ground because a number of subsystems – the rotor system, the actuators, and the power system – responded to increased demands to keep the helicopter flying. In a very real sense, Ingenuity muscled through the situation, and while the flight uncovered a timing vulnerability that will now have to be addressed, it also confirmed the robustness of the system in multiple ways," he concludes.

"While we did not intentionally plan such a stressful flight, NASA now has flight data probing the outer reaches of the helicopter’s performance envelope. That data will be carefully analyzed in the time ahead, expanding our reservoir of knowledge about flying helicopters on Mars."


Image credits: Header image by NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

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Pilot episode in free download here https://archive.org/details/tranSFixion
or watchable here (but don't forget to activate the english subtitles) https://youtu.be/c6k-9TCQgZw

What is tranSFixion ?
well it's the first webserialbum ever done on earth.

Actually only the first episode is done, call it a pilot. But 30 more are written. The style seems a strange mix between William S. Burroughs novels and Alain Resnais Film or early Alain Robbe-Grillet. And of course if you seek something similar you will think to "The Jetty" by Chris Marker or "The adventures of Eddie Turley" by Gérard Courant...
Despite some can unvolontary influence us, it's our own style.

Story by studio 112 https://studio112.bandcamp.com/ & Film by ed end https://ello.co/ed_end/
Special thanks to Cyrille M. & Stéphane P. & Ben P. for help us.
Filmed mostly at La Réunion.

No budget at its Best ?
These days most of the films are extremely demonstrative, showing everything, perhaps producers think the audience is brainless, we think the audience is the best part of the film, able to use its imagination to upgrade it. Like in "Venom & Eternity" by Isidore Isou or Bertolt Brecht's theatrical convention.

Also we've begin work on it at the same time than we launch PIRATE Tapes project. The soundtrack is made with music available in free download
https://archive.org/details/studio_112_Christmas_on_Titan
https://archive.org/details/YOSHIWAKU_Shadow_Of_Fire
https://archive.org/details/CorteX_Out_Of_Order
http://www.horsnorme.org/PIRATE_Tapes/
http://www.horsnorme.org/rADio_eNd/rADio_eNd_english.html

Also as this is the next step of the Video Art Clip process, it could be interesting to digg them https://www.bitchute.com/channel/mixuptv/

Last if you want to support us the best is to share this AntiSun if you are hardcore fan you can also buy the dvdr of my last works here http://www.horsnorme.org/edendeyes/

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TRANSFIXION : Episode 01 "ANTISOLEIL" [Experimental Webserialbum] with English Subtitles