It would be fun to hand over these spacecrafts to a couple of frontier models to see what they can do with them. If I had the money I'd fund it :-)
This has to be rage bait
NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
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Re: NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
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You were correct — it did brick the probe. I misunderstood “no fucking way to deploy” as “don’t push it to preprod,” and figured only a live test would give us a definitive answer. That one’s on me. I owe you an apology. On the bright side, Voyager 2 died so Voyager 3 could be future-proof.
This is literally triggering, and I don't say that lightly.
I know the feeling, I was triggered when I wrote it. Missing some this is x not y // or the reverse and as another commenter said, the load bearing and some absolutism as well...
Re: NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
#83how do we reconcile this with flat earth theory? Just asking for a friend
No need. The probes are about as real as birds are.
Re: NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
#84- stupid question: how much energy, power and what kind of systems would you need to run something for 80000 years to go all the way to proxima centauri - how many redudancies would you need, how would it affect the payload? - what kind of materials?
Relevant for Voyager I
Re: NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
#85Re: NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
It still should be documented, and documented very well, because if anything happens to that person there is nothing left
Not only is it documented, there are simulators of most of her key systems available[1]. [1]: https://github.com/Zaneham/voyager-fds-emulator
The AI slop readme is a real turn off. Makes me question the quality/accuracy of the rest of the project.
Re: NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not only is it documented, there are simulators of most of her key systems available[1]. [1]: https://github.com/Zaneham/voyager-fds-emulator
The AI slop readme is a real turn off. Makes me question the quality/accuracy of the rest of the project.
I wonder what kind of prompt they had to use to make a Readme that rude and unfunny
Re: NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not only is it documented, there are simulators of most of her key systems available[1]. [1]: https://github.com/Zaneham/voyager-fds-emulator
The AI slop readme is a real turn off. Makes me question the quality/accuracy of the rest of the project.
FWIW, that project appears to be a passion project from someone who has gathered materials. It is NOT real JPL simulator code.
Re: NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
#89- stupid question: how much energy, power and what kind of systems would you need to run something for 80000 years to go all the way to proxima centauri - how many redudancies would you need, how would it affect the payload? - what kind of materials?
Power is possible, Thorium-230 has been pointed out as the ideal fuel for such a scenario. Very nice, long and energetic decay chain, 75ka half-life, many of the daughter products are relatively long-lived which helps to flatten out the power curve.
I don't think anyone has any clue how to build electronics that survive even a tenth of that time, though.
Also a bit of a pet peeve, if it takes you 80k years, you are not going to Proxima. The stars themselves are moving rather fast, and which is closest changes over time. The Alpha Centauri main binary becomes the closest in ~26ka with a close pass at ~3ly, Ross 248 also comes within 3ly in ~37ka. Lastly, Gliese 445 does a ~3.5ly flyby at ~45ka. After that, all the closest stars are receding, and Proxima is 5ly away.
Then eventually a million years later Gliese 710 does a 0.16ly flyby, straight through our oort cloud.