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Karnage | 26 days ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +16 
 15.4 billion miles to voyager 1 🤯 and we can still transmit to and from it. Wild. 

https://scitechdaily.com/15-billion-miles-away-nasas-voyager-1-breaks-its-silence/
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Tim Bouma | 26 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Amazing. I’ve always loved engineering under severe constraints and long term horizons. Voyager 1 was and still is from a past golden age of human ingenuity.
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3497c8ce | 26 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 47 years travelling in space, and and still working?! That's some quality engineering 👀
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Rand | 26 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 maybe......lol       / dyor
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Rand | 26 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 can it be a node?