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re: Voyager 1 sending back mysterious data to NASA.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:18 pm to Emteein
Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:18 pm to Emteein
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A few questions: how does it still have power? How is it still sending a signal back to earth? I can barely catch wifi in every room, yet from billions of miles away it can send data.
And it was launched in 1977, which means its development probably started at least in the 60. It’s running technology that was drawn by hand using a slide and rule and has vastly less computing capability than the phone in your hand.
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Posted on 5/18/22 at 8:24 pm to Darth_Vader
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has vastly less computing capability than the phone in your hand.
Ha! Probably doesn’t even have porn on it. Loser NASA.
Posted on 5/18/22 at 9:35 pm to Darth_Vader
It’s using plutonium-238, which has a half life of 87 years. It has the needed power source to keep putting out data, just depends on if we can keep grabbing the signal.
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