OT - Voyager 2 is Still Alive

[MrWhoopee]

After 46 years and 19.9 billion km (12.36 billion miles), it's still responding and sending home data.

NASA Mission Update: Voyager 2 Communications Pause

Once the spacecraft’s antenna is realigned with Earth, communications should resume.

www.jpl.nasa.gov

Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles from home and still functioning as well.

 

[Winegrower]

It's definitely going to need a Windows upgrade.

 

[xr650rRider]

Won't be too much longer and Voyager 1 will be 1 light day away from Earth. 70,518 more years and it will approach nearest solar system.

 

[RaisedByWolves]

It's definitely going to need a Windows upgrade.

Why would an unmanned spacecraft even have windows?

 

[WobblyHand]

I think @Winegrower was making a joke. Can't imagine anything as unreliable as Windows being allowed on a deep space probe.

If, for some insane reason, there actually is Windows software out in deep space, it might be a good thing to send some of the software devs out there - to see the consequences of their bugs... Would make one heck of a service call...

 

[Winegrower]

Actually 46 years ago, plus the development time...had to be DOS.

 

[WobblyHand]

Actually 46 years ago, plus the development time...had to be DOS.

Well, in that case, they are about 66 YRO. They still need to do that service call - how else does anyone learn, but from their mistakes. You eff it up - you get to fix it. I'm kidding, but if one doesn't suffer the consequences of a mistake, one fails to learn...

 

[francist]

And the only reason it’s still going is because it HASN’T had an upgrade!

 

[cross thread]

Remember that old Star Trek movie where Voyager landed on some alien planet ? And when it landed the Vo got dirt on it , and the aliens thought it was a god named yeager .

 

[xr650rRider]

Most of Windows problems are Windows users. Windows sure gets a bad rap in certain circles but we ran control system software for years on Windows NT based servers. Most of the problems with Windows crashing is badly written software and poor hardware.