Voyager 2 is back up and running!

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/02/08/voyager-2-is-back-up-and-runni.html

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Similar thing happened to my neighbor last week. Her stove stop triggered the RCD in her flat, taking the mains out.

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43 years and still going. Let’s see a private sector company like Space-X or Boeing meet that record.

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Maybe they just needed some me time.

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Huzza!!!

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I’m back up and running right now.

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Came here for this

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67 years, and counting …

65 years, and counting …

59 years, and counting …
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255 years, and counting …
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etc.

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Have any of those aircraft had any maintenance done or parts replaced? Last time anybody touched the Voyagers was before they were launched.

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That’s not strictly true though, is it? Also space is, while a hostile environment, in some significant ways more benign than being on earth - there’s no corrosion, and no turbulence, for instance.

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They were also built with double redundancy on many systems, and in some cases are now operating on those redundant circuits.

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You think it needs a little more space? We can do that, no problem.

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Thanks, nuclear power! We couldn’t have done it without you.

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Kind of astonishing that 70s space tech that is 11.5 billion miles away from home is still talking to us.

… and, hopefully, polite enough to not rub it in. “Nyah, nyah! You’ve got Trump! I don’t! [static] ha! ha!!”

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There’s a chance her stove shouldn’t be connected to a shared RCD. Consult an electrician.

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Boeing are struggling to reach 0.

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JPL knows how to build stuff.

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Yes there is. Just not by wind and rain.

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