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inari@piefed.zip to Space@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months ago

Voyager 1 is still transmitting from beyond the heliosphere on 22 watts — less power than the bulb in your hallway — and the engineers who built it in the 1970s never expected we'd still be listening

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Voyager 1 is still transmitting from beyond the heliosphere on 22 watts — less power than the bulb in your hallway — and the engineers who built it in the 1970s never expected we'd still be listening

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inari@piefed.zip to Space@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months ago
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Voyager 1 is still transmitting from beyond the heliosphere on 22 watts — less power than the bulb in your hallway — and the engineers who built it in the 1970s never expected we'd still be listening half a century later.
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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Uh, what. Bulbs last years now.

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      Y’all are replacing light bulbs?

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        only bulb i’ve replaced is the stupid powerful 2000lm smart bulb i have in the ceiling to replace the sun, but that’s under warranty so who cares

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      3 months ago

      That’s because the cartel ceased to operate almost a hundred years ago…

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

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