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Always buy the extended warranty... (Original Post)
brooklynite
Oct 2023
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haele
(15,070 posts)1. Amazing that we have the technology to do this!
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
Nice usage of the word "hidebound" there btw.
moniss
(8,697 posts)2. I can remember
my Windows version changes taking about that long to download.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)4. We got about a year to make good use of these updates...
...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.