Meanwhile soydevs bitch about 1GiB not being enough to run their app.
“STOP SAYING I DON’T NEED TO PULL THE ENTIRITY OF THE JIZZR.IO AND ASSFUCK.TK LIBRARIES FOR MY CRAPPY PIXEL SIDESCROLLER ROGUELIKE! THOSE ARE UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS IN THIS CLIMATE! YOU’RE ENTITLED!!!”
That the thing is still transmitting is an engineering accomplishment beyond wildest expectations. What great work by all the people involved all those years ago and the people on the ground troubleshooting today when things go sideways.
“The Voyager spacecraft have far surpassed their original mission to study the outer planets,” said Patrick Koehn, Voyager program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Every bit of additional data we have gathered since then is not only valuable bonus science for heliophysics, but also a testament to the exemplary engineering that has gone into the Voyagers — starting nearly 50 years ago and continuing to this day.”
until Elon tells it to go home.
