Every few months there is a similar such story about this ancient marvel of technology and the people remotely maintaining it against all odds.
I can imagine a headline 100 years from now:
“Engineers are modifying Voyager 1 decorative panel bolt into a functional interstellar communicator”
each line of code is transmitted over a bandwidth that only supports 1/2 a bit, and it takes 3.5 years to reach the Voyager
A hacker has hijacked the communication relay and managed to install Doom on the Voyager. The game runs perfectly but the user interface is reported to be somewhat laggy.
… He then went on to check if he could run Crysis on it.
Cell phone broke, now using pay phone.
This is a collect call from: MOMCOMEPICKMEUP IMOUTSIDETHEHELIOPAUSE, do you accept the charges?
We need to start a new prank. People should randomly start phone conversations with, “This is a collect call from Richard, do you accept the charges?”., when you phone a friend. It’s funny because no one does collect calls on cell phones. It’s ironic & stupid at the same time.
Bob Weoddababyeetsaveeger.
Humans will be extinct, and Voyager will still be carrying our mixtape through eternity.
Talk about a slow troubleshooting process. Thats, what, 80,000,000ms latency?
And any useful answer thread on stackoverflow is archived.
Your post “Received error code 0459 from 1981 JPL Transmitter Array” has been marked as a Duplicate.
And still it won’t quit.
It is quite legit.
Some would say, too legit, even.
I get it. Sometimes my voice gets hoarse too.
