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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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[–] inari@piefed.zip 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

NASA has a neat little video showing the path taken by Voyager 1: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4139

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Very interesting. So they both manouvred (slingshot) using planets' gravity wells? Not everything in SciFi is fiction I guess.

And V1 has traveled further from our solar system than the solar system's diameter. Wow.

Extremely high bitrate on the video due to starry background, btw. My old lappy got wheezy.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, and there was a 175 year window for the planets to be lined up like that.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You mean the planets just sat there for 175 years? Wow, I really learned something new today.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Windows to use all the gas giants for gravity slingshots in quick succession only occur every 175 years. Is that better?

[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

In the scientific fiction genre, everything is scientifically possible. That's the entire premise. Time tells us what they get right and what becomes fantasy.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing in Star Wars is scientifically possible or ever will be.

[–] RicoBerto@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 hours ago

Star wars is barely science fiction. It's basically fantasy with a bit of tech.

[–] Steve 2 points 11 hours ago

Not everything, no.
That's called fantasy.