New Delhi: For years, people have run the classic 1993 game Doom on everything from printers to pregnancy tests. But this one takes the cake, or rather, takes it out of Earth’s orbit. According to reports, an Icelandic software developer named Ólafur Waage has managed to get Doom running on the European Space Agency’s OPS-SAT satellite. Yes, the same Doom that first launched on DOS over three decades ago is now officially running in space.

We all remember seeing Doom played on calculators and even a fridge door, but who would have thought we’d hear about someone firing up the game above Earth’s atmosphere. This experiment, which sounds like a Reddit post turned real, was part of ESA’s hacking challenge for the now-decommissioned OPS-SAT satellite, a small “flying laboratory” used

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