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Not exactly warp speed, but built to last

I love the bit about the memory capacity, 2x 68k lol Well it’s more than my Speccy had so when the aliens capture it they will be able to play Dizzy Egg no probs : )

Mate the voyager 1 and 2 were mighty probes, I remember there was the big thing about them saying that it’s speed or course was changing at a unnatural pace. Think it was slowing down or something. Never did find out what happened to it. I may google it.

@General Lighting 535289 wrote:

the nearest one (Voyager 2) has been linked to a twitter feed. they can still be used until they go out of range, the batteries will work until 2025.

that cost fuckloads back then, especially military grade RAM chips. The aliens will get some tunes and pictures to look at as well..

Voyager Golden Record – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

there were (and are) a suprising amount of hippy types in the aerospace industry (as many engineers hold their nose to the military aspects and take the high paid job) so perhaps they are hoping some aliens when they see it in orbit carefully haul it in using a space net / crane or whatever they need for intergalactic scrap metal recovery, carefully take it apart and use the bits to play back the record… (there is already a playback cartridge stored with the disks)

A lot of physicists who helped work with the space industry were known to indulge in a little drug use. Carl Sagan (who worked extensively with the Voyager probes) was quite the advocate of cannabis, and Richard Feynman is one of the more notable users of John C. Lilly’s sensory deprivation tanks, which he did on ketamine.