this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
103 points (100.0% liked)

Space

9200 readers
87 users here now

News and findings about our cosmos.

Subcommunity of Science

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
wintrparkgrl@beehaw.org
Gaywallet@beehaw.org
alyaza@beehaw.org
remington@beehaw.org
103
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)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by inari@piefed.zip to c/space@beehaw.org
29 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Steve 1 points 15 hours ago

It's absolutely fantasy. No debate. So is Star Trek.

Actual science fiction is like the recent Hail Mary. Everything is based on liter real science, with maybe one "what if" kind of stretch.