Humanity on the brink of interstellar travel
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:12 am
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That old piece of figurative crap with less computing power than my calculator has been working 15 times longer than my last cellphone.Lighthawk wrote:I'm not sure what's more amazing, that it's taken the thing 33 years just to reach the edge of the solar system (We all know space is big, but just how big is hard to fathom at times) or that it's still working.
No, the Klingons will need it for target practice.Lighthawk wrote:I'm not sure what's more amazing, that it's taken the thing 33 years just to reach the edge of the solar system (We all know space is big, but just how big is hard to fathom at times) or that it's still working.
First thing we need to do upon developing an FTL is go collect Voy 1. That'd make a hell of a museum piece.
That's because your provider can't count on squeezing more money out of you by building obsolescence into a space probe - but they can with your phone.SolkaTruesilver wrote:That old piece of figurative crap with less computing power than my calculator has been working 15 times longer than my last cellphone.Lighthawk wrote:I'm not sure what's more amazing, that it's taken the thing 33 years just to reach the edge of the solar system (We all know space is big, but just how big is hard to fathom at times) or that it's still working.
You argument makes economical sense. But the irony is still biting hard.Mikey wrote:That's because your provider can't count on squeezing more money out of you by building obsolescence into a space probe - but they can with your phone.SolkaTruesilver wrote:That old piece of figurative crap with less computing power than my calculator has been working 15 times longer than my last cellphone.Lighthawk wrote:I'm not sure what's more amazing, that it's taken the thing 33 years just to reach the edge of the solar system (We all know space is big, but just how big is hard to fathom at times) or that it's still working.
Pioneer 10.shran wrote:Then what did the klingons shoot to pieces in the Final Frontier?
Wouldn't it be about the same distance, taken from SFDebris'sCaptain Seafort wrote:Pioneer 10.shran wrote:Then what did the klingons shoot to pieces in the Final Frontier?