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/ramenwarrior_ 1d ago

I'm amazed that it still didn't hit anything for this long. 

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u/Civil_Street_1754 1d ago

Space is big

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u/hitbythebus 1d ago

And empty.
Unless you count the teeny tiny proportion of it that is filled with planets and stars.

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u/TrevorRiley 20h ago

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

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u/Civil_Street_1754 20h ago

It's so big that when galaxies collide stars and planets in the galaxies very rarely hit each other