I’ve been reading a lot about space lately. And by “reading a lot about space” I mean “playing Connect Four with Wikipedia articles”. One subject that I find particularly fascinating are the Voyager satellites.
In 2012 Voyager 1 exited out solar system and last month became the farthest spacecraft from our special life-sustaining rock and it is still (technically) sending data. That’s crazy! Something built 14 years before the internet was really a thing and is 16 years older than me is the only piece of garbage we’ve ejected out of our solar system and it still works fine.