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in 2014 a group of civilian technoarchaeologists operating from a former McDonald s contacted an abandoned 35 year old NASA solar satellite and took control of it, before a lack of fuel pressure derailed their plan to return the space probe to its original parking space at Lagrange point L1.

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Fun Fact: in 2014 a group of civilian ‘technoarchaeologists’ operating from a former McDonald’s contacted an abandoned 35 year old NASA solar satellite and took control of it, before a lack of fuel pressure derailed their plan to return the space probe to its original parking space at Lagrange point L1.

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