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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I get it. Sometimes my voice gets hoarse too.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Humans will be extinct, and Voyager will still be carrying our mixtape through eternity.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Some would say, too legit, even.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Whenever someone tells me 1 GiB of RAM isn't enough, i think of Voyager.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Clearly they need to upload more RAM...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Voyager wasn’t written in JavaScript, to Web 2.0

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let's see Voyager load up Chrome real quick

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Voyager is it's own search engine. Why would it need chrome?

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Every few months there is a similar such story about this ancient marvel of technology and the people remotely maintaining it against all odds.

I can imagine a headline 100 years from now:

"Engineers are modifying Voyager 1 decorative panel bolt into a functional interstellar communicator"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A hacker has hijacked the communication relay and managed to install Doom on the Voyager. The game runs perfectly but the user interface is reported to be somewhat laggy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

... He then went on to check if he could run Crysis on it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

each line of code is transmitted over a bandwidth that only supports 1/2 a bit, and it takes 3.5 years to reach the Voyager

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

This is the exact bit of data I was searching for, thanks a bunch.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cell phone broke, now using pay phone.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is a collect call from: MOMCOMEPICKMEUP IMOUTSIDETHEHELIOPAUSE, do you accept the charges?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

We need to start a new prank. People should randomly start phone conversations with, "This is a collect call from Richard, do you accept the charges?"., when you phone a friend. It's funny because no one does collect calls on cell phones. It's ironic & stupid at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You have a collect call from: daddy fine Nebraska cornfields Chris garbage hang up

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Talk about a slow troubleshooting process. Thats, what, 80,000,000ms latency?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And any useful answer thread on stackoverflow is archived.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Your post "Received error code 0459 from 1981 JPL Transmitter Array" has been marked as a Duplicate.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's sad it'll probably lose contact relatively soon. Does anyone know if there are any plans for a new long distance probe?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think for the Voyager launches the planets and the sun were aligned in such a way that the probes could be slingshotted around them to gain speed. I think such an alignment is quite rare?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It only happens every 400 years or so.

It's pretty crazy to think about. The Voyager mission isn't just a big thing for the current generations, but also for many future generations, who will not have as good an opportunity.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

It's a bit more complicated than that. New Horizons actually went way faster than the Voyager probes, getting to Pluto in only 9.5 years. It took Voyager 2 just slightly longer than 12 years to reach Neptune for comparison. The planetary alignment you are thinking about was due to relative proximity. Obviously you can't use Saturn to slingshot you to Uranus if they are on opposite sides of the solar system. All the outer planets were going to be on the same side of the solar system, allowing the Voyager probes to visit them all in succession.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

They're already out there. Just don't get as much news as Voyager. Unfortunately I don't think any will be capable of lasting as long since we stopped using the radio isotope generators. New horizons is currently in the Kupier belt. It's the 5th such probe to reach escape velocity from our solar system. Pioneer 10 and 11 were the other non-voyager probes.

Edit: I was incorrect, new horizons does use an RTG for power. But right now its mission is slated to end in 2029. I wonder if it will be kept alive like the Voyager probes.

Edit 2: yeah, the RTG is slated to run out of power to run the transmitters in the 2030s. It was originally designed to be more powerful but the DOE delayed delivery of the plutonium 238 required.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Dept of Education? D O Emissions? Can't figure it out even with some searching

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Department of Energy. The main role is to handle the radioactive materials that the government creates and uses

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also one of the three departments Rick Perry (R-Texas) couldn't remember that he wanted to eliminate.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"See? If there is no government agency handlin' radioactive waste, that problem goes away!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He did change his tune after he became Secretary of Energy.

Also, May 15, 2023 β€” Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry would not support former President Donald Trump in his reelection campaign when asked on Sunday,

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Something like rats and sinking ships come to mind. Now that Trump shows his true fashist colors, some REPs don't want to end up as Trumps Himmler or GΓΆring...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Department of Enthalpy

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Department of Energy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Department of Energy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cool. Thank you for the info. I'll have to look them up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Sorry I put a couple updates in there as well.

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