“At the mission’s outset, the flight-team members were mischievous kids. They relieved stress with games and pranks: bowling in the hallway, using soda cans as pins; filling desk drawers with plastic bags of live goldfish; making scientists compete in disco-pose contests.”
Oh those irresponsible boomers. No work ethic.
Millennials are old
We’re supposed to talk shit about Gen Z now
If your job is to fix the Earth’s preeminent ambassador to the rest of the universe, you need good pastries.
That really makes rather little sense. It’s a tape recorder; if they wanted to clear the tape or change its contents all they would have to do is write over it. The Curie temperature of the magnetic coating (where it would lose its intrinsic magnetization) would be substantially higher than the melting or decomposition temperature of the tape substrate and even if there were enough friction to cause that level of heating through winding the tape, it would mean operating the tape recorder would take a lot more power than it really needed to and probably also wear out the coating very rapidly.
Some day Voyager will be reprogrammed to run DOOM. Unfortunately it will be unplayable as the latency will be atrocious
… obviously Voyager is a special case 
but tape decks often/usually have separate erase heads 
Is it actually tape or does it use a wire?
ETA - nope, actual tape:
core rope memory. so cool. ( but yeah. apollo, not voyager )
In 1977, the Voyager spacecraft launched, carrying with it The Golden Record . On that record were the sounds of Earth; a sort of time capsule for extraterrestrials. A few pieces of music were included on that record: among them, Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode”.
We report the discovery of this record by these extraterrestrials. Their response?
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