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NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating (science.nasa.gov)
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Engineers are confident that shutting down the LECP will give Voyager 1 about a year of breathing room. They are using the time to finalize a more ambitious energy-saving fix for both Voyagers they call “the Big Bang,” which is designed to further extend Voyager operations. The idea is to swap out a group of powered devices all at once — hence the nickname — turning some things off and replacing them with lower-power alternatives to keep the spacecraft warm enough to continue gathering science data.

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[–] 121 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Why can't we be as forward thinking as the people who created the voyager probes?

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  • [–] 125 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Jesus that is a sobering figure I did not need to see today.

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  • [+] -9 points 4 months ago

    It actually doesn't really show much, except maybe that inflation exists and people generally have more money now.

    If it's supposed to show how the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, it does a lousy job. It's practically impossible to see the relative change between the groups, since the lower two graphs' behaviors are impossible to see. The only thing that can at least somewhat be seen is that the top 10% and the top 1% grow quite correspondingly.

    So, basically that graph shows that everything seems to be as fair as it has always been. Probably wasn't the intention, and certainly not a good representation of what's happening. It's very possible that the top 1% is included also in the top 10% and dominates it, but just based on that graph it's impossible to know.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There is no way that disparity is that close.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    The chart is at about 1.5% of the way from displaying a billionaire, with Muskrat being 800,000 times higher than the top of this chart. The 1% are not the problem, they are one in a hundred. The practically unbounded wealth of a handful of people above this chart is our problem, the world's problem, humanity's problem.

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  • [–] 52 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 - just before the Reagan era. Coincidence?

    Also, and I'm still just guessing here, it's probably the culmination of the space race to the moon minus the pressure to be there before the Russians.

    In other words, NASA's Golden Age.

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