Venkat, Bruce, and a team of JPL scientists celebrate the first ping from the Pathfinder lander.
It worked! Holy shit, it worked! They know im alive! Im crying i gotta admit it but doesn't make me a bitch. I mean after 97 days of isolation finally have someone to talk to. If only i could get Snapchat working.
Finally, the first image from Mars comes into NASA HQ. It's a handwritten note, suspended at the camera's height, telling them to point the camera in one direction to say yes, and another to say no.
There's just one problem these messages drag to send back and forth i mean it takes about 30 minutes. Making these conversations slower than Ariel Torres trying to go talk to a girl. I come up with a plan i will create a system that allows NASA to point the camera at different spots for different letter of the alphabet, it's still a bit slow but it'll do for now.
Back at NASA, Venkat is approached by a software engineer named Jack Trevor who has an interesting idea they can hack Pathfinder to receive messages directly on the rover screen. The only problem is that they'll have to first transmit the code to Jay, who will have to do the actual hacking himself.
I receive a type of code i'm no techie but i believe that i will have to do some hacking to enter in the code as if i was a star on The Big Bang Theory.
Meanwhile, Mitch is talking with Teddy, demanding that they tell the Ares 3 crew that Jay is alive. Now that there's hope, Teddy finally agrees.