2026-07-31 19:24 UTC
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@patrick@social.seattle.wa.us 2026-07-31 20:55
@markwyner@mas.to When all our constructions turn to dust, and we are just an archeological planet, the Voyager spacecraft may be seen as out planet’s most amazing achievement. As in “how close they came”. Interplanetary archeologists will try to imagine the level of cooperation we must have reached, as primitive tool makers, to have advanced so far in so little time. Until they find the weapons of war still orbiting our dusty planet, and they discover why Earth is lifeless.
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@Wolkensteine@mastodon.wolkenheim.eu 2026-07-31 19:29
@markwyner@mas.to Yeah it really shows that if humans don't rush a thing and put a lot of work into something it can be much more than we before thought it could be.
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@c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io 2026-07-31 19:53
@markwyner@mas.to permacomputing
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@alpatron@mastodonczech.cz 2026-07-31 20:03
@markwyner@mas.to IIRC this fun fact from my fault-tolerant systems course, they built in a Reed–Solomon error-correction code encoder for a robust connection... the fun being at that time no decoder existed, assuming that in a few years, when Voyager would be far enough to really need the error correction, a decoder would have been developed. And the gamble paid off.
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@riley@toot.cat 2026-07-31 20:17
@markwyner@mas.to If it collides with something, that something wil most likely be an Oort Cloud object.
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@operator@vis.social 2026-07-31 20:21
@markwyner@mas.to why newer sended a new better one?
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@SteveClough@metalhead.club 2026-07-31 20:44
@markwyner@mas.to And only then - after the Oort cloud - will it be really out of our system. 30K years.
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@RandamuMaki@mstdn.social 2026-07-31 20:46
@markwyner@mas.to If only we can keep the multi-billionaire fascists out of meddling in the affairs of rocket scientists, we could maybe actually catch up to Voyager before it reaches the Oort Cloud.
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@Guillotine_Jones@beige.party 2026-07-31 21:26
@markwyner@mas.to This information about the incredibly successful technological accomplishment that is Voyager I is so impressive that I don't dare make a joke about the planet Uranus. You're welcome.
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@boelder@shakedown.social 2026-07-31 23:28
@markwyner@mas.to "... retrieved ..."
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@edwiebe@scribili.masto.host 2026-08-01 00:39
@markwyner@mas.to A big part of this success is that it’s powered by plutonium. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/new-horizons-mission-powered-space-radioisotope-power-systems
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@thedoh@hachyderm.io 2026-08-01 01:12
@markwyner@mas.to @briankrebs@infosec.exchange I love the idea that unless this little probe hits something, it will continue on for millions and millions of years. It could very well be one of the last artifacts of our entire species in the very far distant future.
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@Su_G@aus.social 2026-08-01 02:04
@markwyner@mas.to I love this picture as well as brave* little Voyager. I love it for what it says about us and what we can be. 🥰 * brave as in German ‘brave sein’, something between brave & good. #Voyager #brave
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@claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social 2026-08-01 02:37
@markwyner@mas.to Oh quite. We're looking at the main reason Voyager was central to the first Star Trek movie.
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@lukeharby@infosec.exchange 2026-08-01 05:32
@markwyner@mas.to there was also a lovely documentary on BBC iplayer some years back that had interviews with many key people. Two things stood out to me, one scientist put the whole "space is big, really big" concept into a relative size comparison. Another explained that the technology used on the probes was more basic than what you can find in a key fob now 🤯
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@davidbcohen@twit.social 2026-08-01 06:48
@markwyner@mas.to @Guillotine_Jones@beige.party Conversely, Artemis couldn’t open their email after a day in space.
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@Nick_Stevens_graphics@mastodon.art 2026-08-01 08:29
@markwyner@mas.to And it communicates from that distance using a transmitter with a power of 23 watts,
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@spiezmaestro@social.spiezmaestro.ch 2026-08-01 08:48
@markwyner@mas.to everything about Voyager is just wow. Regarding communicating with them, I found this question and especially the answer so cool. Science rocks! https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/816698/how-many-photons-are-received-per-bit-transmitted-from-voyager-1
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@CliffsEsport@mastodon.social 2026-08-01 15:16
@markwyner@mas.to Timing of reading your post today, while I am updating one of 4 linux distros I have on an ASUS UL30vt (Core 2 duo machine from 2010)
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@pacman@swiss.social 2026-08-03 09:08
@markwyner@mas.to "...it will reach the Oort Cloud in about 300 years. It will take about 30k years to pass through it...." By that time its creators at NASA will be long gone and the project will have been long forgotten so when it calls back with a position report and a question the guys behind the monitors at NASA will say "What the heck is this...." and assume it is an extraterrestrial which, curiously, speaks an Earth language.