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Re: Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

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Post by wongarsu »

andai wrote: post #65
pkorzeniewski wrote: post #49

Voyager 1 & 2 is one of my favourite human science achievements, not even so much from technology standpoint, as it's relatively simple compared to what we have now (although that's one of the charms), but just the fact that it's so far away, it still more or less works long after the scheduled mission end time, we can communicate with it and despite all the modern technology progress, it would take decades to catch…

>despite all the modern technology progress, it would take decades to catch up. Could you elaborate on this?

Take decades to catch up to the location of either voyager probe. The probes have be traveling for a long time. They have also taken advantage of a rare planetary alignment that allowed them to visit a lot of planets and get gravity assists from them (converting a tiny portion of the planet's angular momentum into orbital speed for the spacecraft)

Re: Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

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Post by wongarsu »

trvz wrote: post #77
pkorzeniewski wrote: post #49

Voyager 1 & 2 is one of my favourite human science achievements, not even so much from technology standpoint, as it's relatively simple compared to what we have now (although that's one of the charms), but just the fact that it's so far away, it still more or less works long after the scheduled mission end time, we can communicate with it and despite all the modern technology progress, it would take decades to catch…

They are dangerous and reckless. They were also done in the name of humanity, but without humanity’s consent. I despise the naive scientists who did them as much as those who brought the damocletian sword of nuclear weapons on us.

I assume you are against them due to the silent forest hypothesis? Better not announce ourselves, because anything out there might not be friendly to us?

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Post by srean »

trvz wrote: post #77
pkorzeniewski wrote: post #49

Voyager 1 & 2 is one of my favourite human science achievements, not even so much from technology standpoint, as it's relatively simple compared to what we have now (although that's one of the charms), but just the fact that it's so far away, it still more or less works long after the scheduled mission end time, we can communicate with it and despite all the modern technology progress, it would take decades to catch…

They are dangerous and reckless. They were also done in the name of humanity, but without humanity’s consent. I despise the naive scientists who did them as much as those who brought the damocletian sword of nuclear weapons on us.

Elaborate please.

Re: Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

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Post by reaperducer »

jprd wrote: post #63
reaperducer wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was actually a bit curious how much HN uses, since it's probably the lightest site that I frequent. I use an iPhone 5 as an iPod. HN is one of the few web sites that still works with iOS 10.

Nice. Do you just use your 5 as a stationary iPod, or do you dual-carry with a modern device as well? Curious on if you also use it to wi-fi the web on your local LAN periodically too, of it that was just a periodic test to check if HN worked.

I use it around the house to Airplay music to various devices.

A number of things don't work, or work in unexpected ways, mostly because Apple doesn't allow me to log in to iCloud with such an old phone.

I can't control lights with the Home app. But Airplay works fine. The phone doesn't know what a HomePod is, but it shows up with a regular generic speaker icon, like the AirMac I have hooked up to my stereo.

Sometimes I have a few minutes to kill, and I pick it up to look at HN. The New York Times web site starts to work, but the login page doesn't load at all. WSJ blocks me at a "verifying the device" screen. WaPo half works. eBay works some, but no pictures. Ditto for Wikipedia.

There's a lot of things you take for granted on a new phone that you only realize when you're using an old phone. Like you didn't used to be able to quickly scroll an entire web page it's only a screen at a time in iOS 10. You can't grab the scroll bar on the side and move it, either.

And 99.9999% of people don't realize the genius of the camera island. It makes it so much easier to pick up the phone if one end is elevated a bit. With a completely flat phone, you end up dragging/scraping it along the table in order to grip it, which scuffs the surface. And if the table is really smooth, it's surprisingly difficult to lift the phone straight up.

Re: Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

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Post by gdubs »

One of my favorite stories about the Voyager mission was how they wanted to grab photos of the outer planets but the click of the tape drive was enough to ruin the long exposures. I made a YouTube short about it a while back:

https://youtube.com/shorts/fssIy-wQisA?si=_HM1fgZKGFfaxWhc

Re: Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

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Post by wongarsu »

elvis70 wrote: post #50

> For the first time in the history of the universe, as far as we know, an object built by a living species had left the protective bubble of its home star system... Seriously?

An easy claim to make if you only check with species from one star system

Re: Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

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Post by Narishma »

cedilla wrote: post #72
andai wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>despite all the modern technology progress, it would take decades to catch up. Could you elaborate on this?

Voyager 1 and 2 are 25 and 21 billion kilometres away, respectively. Even if we built a rocket just designed to get stuff as far away as quickly away as possible, it would take decades to catch up to where they are now.

Could we even catch up to them at all with the current propulsion technology? Not only did they have decades of head start but they took advantage of a unique planetary alignment that I don't think will come back around anytime soon.

Re: Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

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Post by spike021 »

chistev wrote: post #66
pan69 wrote: post #61

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> Video unavailable > The uploader has not made this video available in your country I'd love to watch this but unfortunately. My country being AU.

Why do some uploaders make it unavailable in certain countries?

licensing probably
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