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Voyager 1 is still transmitting from beyond the heliosphere on 22 watts — less power than the bulb in your hallway — and the engineers who built it in the 1970s never expected we'd still be listening (spacedaily.com)
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[-] Dionysus@leminal.space 9 points 1 day ago

The person who wrote this was also as old as the engineers who built Voyager and assume everyone still uses incandescent bulbs.

Didn't the Mango Mussolini go on a rant once about LED bulbs?

[-] kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

Its actually lower than a lot of LED bulbs. The heaters are what's using most of the power.

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