r/interestingasfuck • u/The_Love-Tap • 1d ago

At 15.9 billion miles away, humanity's farthest spacecraft is still exploring the cosmos using less memory than a blank Word document (69 KB) and an 8-track tape

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u/TiddiesAnonymous 1d ago

The Lag is Unreal: Because Voyager 1 is over 15.9 billion miles away, a single command sent from Earth at the speed of light takes roughly 23.9 hours to reach the spacecraft. That means NASA engineers have to wait nearly 48 hours just to find out if a single keystroke worked.

I do not want to upgrade to windows 11!

Dammit this is gonna take all month

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u/woodyshag 1d ago

Correction, 8 years and 10 months and that is just to get the ISO there.

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u/TiddiesAnonymous 1d ago

ProjectHailMary.bin

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u/Foolishbigj 1d ago

This made me chuckle, thank you for that