So the title did its job which is you understand nothing until you enter their site, drive traffic, display ads, and possibly collect your data in the process.
Comment on Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth
originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 9 months ago
For those who didn’t read the article, voyager 1 is still sending and transmitting data. It’s stuck in a loop sending the same packets to Earth on repeat but it is receiving commands just fine. It’s not completely dark.
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originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Sure and Lemmy did its work by letting me and others relay the info. I hate ads as much as the next guy, especially targeted ads, but the internet is free and I don’t pay CNN a dime so I’ll take the hit for you this time. Next time, you click the clickbait and fill us in ☺️
Exec@pawb.social 9 months ago
possibly collect your data in the process
Nooo they respect your privacy just share your stuff with 967 of their partners
deleted@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Good because I drew the line at 969
Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ads are a shitty part of the internet experience, but what exactly is your point here…?
deleted@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My point is the title in journalism went from a summary of the story to a confusing false statement that might give you a hint of what the story is about.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
My point is the title in journalism went from a summary of the story to a confusing false statement that might give you a hint of what the story is about.
This is what we get when nobody wants to pay for news anymore. The fact that news media had to turn to ad-funded models is the fault of everybody who refuses to pay for their news
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Are we sure it isn’t YouTube trying to insert an ad?
RazorsLedge@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is the dumbest thing I’ve read today. You got a giggle out of me.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
How do we know that it’s receiving commands fine? I am assuming pinging Voyager 1 might take a while.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It takes 45 hours and that’s a good question.
Perhaps there are multiple distinct channels with one for command responses and another for scientific data?
duplexsystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
It takes 20+ hours so since the announcement and now they could have send a command and gotten a response
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ideally it was an update issue and it’s fixable. However I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a hardware failure due to radiation or something similar. That said, Voyager1 has power only until 2025 or so, since RTGs are designed to last that much. So even if the issue is fixed, its life will only expand by few years. Also, the fact it relies on nuclear power means none of the new stuff will last as long since they stopped using them some time ago due to fear from nuclear energy.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 9 months ago
God forbid we pollute the far reaches of space with radiation. (sic.)
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Am thinking people were mostly worried if rocket explodes during liftoff. Then again people also are completely clueless about radiation in general, especially smokers.
MrShankles@reddthat.com 9 months ago
As a smoker: I’m not clueless, I just don’t love myself more than the addiction. But I’m getting there, cause breathing “easily” is an under-rated pleasure, when compared to… not breathing that well
It can take time to break the mental stuff before breaking the habit, regardless of understood risk
Now magnets though… I’m at a complete fucking loss
Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
One of the main people who raised concern about rockets full of nuclear material exploding above populated areas was mitchio kaku. He certainly has a good few clues about radiation and nuclear physics.
elbrar@pawb.social 9 months ago
RTGs are still used for outer solar system missions. Not enough light for solar panels. Hell, even the Perseverance Mars rover, which was launched in 2020, has an RTG.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hm, didn’t know about those. Good to hear. RTGs are such a great technology.
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 9 months ago
I wonder if it’s struggling with Parity Checks?
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s fantastic, that means all they have to do is reset some components and it should restore functionality. I say should, it’s still a scary thing to turn on/off components om a satellite bcz you aren’t guaranteed they’ll come on. Nasa people usually prefer soft resets to hard resets of components, but we’ll see what happens.
One of the satellites I worked on had to have a software update to do a soft reset of a component every time it tried to write certain data. It was really scary bcz we thought we had lost one of our redundancies right after launch, which would have sucked.
But, we didn’t. Anyway, just wanted to give a little bit of insight into what the FOT might be thinking about while they’re trying to recover the satellite to nominal state.
originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yeah I got very sad when I saw the headline and breathed a huge sigh of relief. Voyager 1’s death will be far sadder than most public figures. Maybe any.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Same, for a moment I was really concerned. Voyager is like a lifetime achievement for humanity at this point. When it stops communicating its going to be a big loss for the scientific community, and population as a whole. I’m not looking forward to hearing about its loss of functionality in the next decade or so.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Will we ever reach as far again?
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wait till it returns as V’ger
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Or the Mighty V-GINY.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You waited 40 years to be able to use that.
Hats off to you.
gazter@aussie.zone 9 months ago
I don’t know if I would consider Voyager to be ‘dead’ if it stops transmitting.
If I put a message in a bottle, with a blinky light on it, then throw it into the ocean, the message is still there even if the blinky light goes out.