I rarely downvote, but the actual Voyager probes are an inspirational story of real scientific triumph. I will not hear them smeared!
Somehow, the first thing we sent out of the solar system intentionally wasn't a conquering fleet, a self-aggrandizing tyrant/cult leader/gazillionaire, or a swarm of mining bots thirsty for lanthanides, but rather a sincere artifact of curiousity. We've kept it running long past its intended service life, and indeed the best-before date of many of its designers. It's a "Humanity, Fuck Yeah" story that's heartwarming instead of jingoistic.
My budget platform is "ask how much NASA wants each year, and put a zero behind it."
I rarely downvote, but the actual Voyager probes are an inspirational story of real scientific triumph. I will not hear them smeared!
Somehow, the first thing we sent out of the solar system intentionally wasn't a conquering fleet, a self-aggrandizing tyrant/cult leader/gazillionaire, or a swarm of mining bots thirsty for lanthanides, but rather a sincere artifact of curiousity. We've kept it running long past its intended service life, and indeed the best-before date of many of its designers. It's a "Humanity, Fuck Yeah" story that's heartwarming instead of jingoistic.
My budget platform is "ask how much NASA wants each year, and put a zero behind it."
good point, Voyagers power systems are supposed to have at least another year which is more than most will say about musk