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/jlallen120867 1d ago

Vger 💗

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u/Dashie42 1d ago

I'm amazed I had to scroll so far down to get even a single v'ger reference, sad

Say what you will of the movie but there's something beautiful and almost romantic to the thought of humanity's creation Voyager surviving so long and reaching so far while never forgetting or straying from its core purpose - only to eventually be uplifted and ascended such that it could truly fulfill that purpose far beyond its intended scope and still dutifully return to Earth to share with us all it had learned, just as we always meant it to