People will believe anything lol
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2024
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Provided we engineer them well, this is good news for truly deep space operations. Cosmic radiation and interplanetary gasses could (and probably do) wreak havoc on various materials, but apparently technology from the 70s is capable of handling it very long term.
Now if we could just get out of these squishy meat suits we'd be in business.
Solid state tech using minerals and metals for interstellar travel.
Squishy meatbag for living and reproducing on a goldilocked planetoid.
We should just turn into comets for the purpose of travelling 🐌 slow but effective
I try to diagnose the carburetor in my 50 year old Jeep sitting right in front of me, and I still can't get it running right.
These people are amazing, and the people that built that so it can still be fixed out in the Oort Cloud were even better.
Absolute Chad.
Anyone ever sometimes think, that there's an alien species that kinda feels a little paternal towards us and keeps fixing out Tonka Toys because it makes us happy?
This is disrespectful towards the achievements of the human race. My father kept attributing all of our recent technology to "the findings at roswell" and i have very strong feelings towards this position.
So much agreeance. I can see how people may be awestruck by recent technology, but crediting it to extraterrestrial life both completely ignores the gradual progression of knowledge which enabled it and disregards the brilliant minds who spent their lives bringing it to fruition.
Screw thanking aliens, it's an incredible team of engineers that have the skills and dedication to do what seems impossible. This was 100% humanity at its best.
They rebuilt the most critical core code on a near antique spacecraft that has effectively left the solar system over an equally ancient radio link. They had 1 shot, and nailed it.
Yes ra ra NASA is totally legit and a shining example of the best achievements of humanity for sure. Nothing sketchy about it. It is amazing though to think how manned space flight is the only technology to not only lack progress in the last 60 years, but has actually regressed. I really wish these hero scientists could get back to working on manned space flight so we can ditch this whirling spaceball
Did they have eeproms in the 70s? It's just mind blowing. These nerds are next level.
Naw, so Apollo was built with curtain rods and used candles for thrust
https://moon.nasa.gov/system/resources/detail_files/188_detail_as11-40-5927_orig.jpg
Exactly. If there's anything that we can point to and say "humanity, fuck yeah" this is it. Giving thanks to aliens or to gods is an insult to the hard work of the HUMANS that accomplished this.
Exactly. NASA has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no God, the earth is a ball, we can trust our governments and large institutions, and manned space flight was a '70s trend back when the economy was better. We still have them to thank for Velcro and Tang my dudes
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