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Always buy the extended warranty... (Original Post) brooklynite Oct 2023 OP
Amazing that we have the technology to do this! haele Oct 2023 #1
Profit, comfort and POWER via religion or ideology Maru Kitteh Oct 2023 #3
I can remember moniss Oct 2023 #2
We got about a year to make good use of these updates... Act_of_Reparation Oct 2023 #4

haele

(15,070 posts)
1. Amazing that we have the technology to do this!
Fri Oct 20, 2023, 12:25 PM
Oct 2023

That humans as a species are capable of such rapid leaps of ingenuity and creation is amazing. It's depressing that the same species has enough members that are so hidebound and short-sighted as to drag civilization back down into muck for individual profit or comfort.

Go V'Ger!

Haele

Maru Kitteh

(31,245 posts)
3. Profit, comfort and POWER via religion or ideology
Fri Oct 20, 2023, 12:38 PM
Oct 2023

Nice usage of the word "hidebound" there btw.


Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)
4. We got about a year to make good use of these updates...
Fri Oct 20, 2023, 12:39 PM
Oct 2023

...before Voyager 1's RTG's won't be able to supply enough power to run the scientific instruments.

Voyager 2 should be good until 2030 or so.

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