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[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

If it's truly dead, it's a sad day for humanity. The farthest reaches into space we've ever been, and possibly ever will be. It'll just be a lonely probe wondering the cosmos, unable to phone home.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 22 points 1 year ago

It's a miracle it lasted as long as it did.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Still very impressive regardless of who did it. Its original mission plan was for a little over 3 years but it worked for 46 years!

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

14-15x operational plan isn't unheard of. The Mars Ingenuity helicopter outperformed by that much as well.

Done right, engineering does very much resemble magic.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If that's the farthest we ever go, then we're a sad pathetic species that peaked in 1977.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I mean maybe, there are limitations to physics. We aren't talking science fiction here. The universe is truly much more vast than we think it is, and galaxies are all flying away from eachother. We'd be lucky if we ever even send a message to the next closest star system to ours.

[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ok but that's just like your opinion, man.

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Voyager 1 is not dead. It is only sleeping as it enters the final stage of its 1.5 billion year mission.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

It's just a piece of equipment, so it won't "be lonely."

But I agree with everything else. It's an INCREDIBLE masterpiece, just wandering space as an indicator that we exist(ed.) Amazing!

[-] Rayston@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Anthropomorphizing things is human nature and let's us connect to things. Stop harshing our buzz.

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