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"well youve had it 6 years that's a good amount of time for that kind of thing to work"

"you should be grateful you got 3 years of use out of that thing, I'm lucky if mine last a year haha"

listen, in 1977 nasa launched the voyager spacecrafts to take advantage of a planetary alignment that takes place every 175 years. These 2 crafts were planned to flyby the outer planets of our solar system and gather data on them to send back to us. Voyager 2 launched first on the 20th of August despite its name because it was planned to reach our gas giants after its counterpart voyager 1, which launched a little later on the 5th of September.

The voyager mission was planned to end 12 years later in 1989. In that time, voyager 1 and 2 passed by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. They discovered new moons, confirmed theories about Saturn's rings, found the first active volcanoes found outside the earth, and they take close-up images of planets only seen at that point from telescopes.

On the 25th of August 1989, voyager 2 encounters Neptune, the last planet in our solar system the voyagers will meet. And that was that. End of mission. Now obsolete.

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Less than 1 year later on valentine's day in 1990 voyager 1 looked back on the planet that had built it and sent with it a world's worth of hopes and dreams and took a picture. We called it the solar system family portrait and in it, we see ourselves. The pale blue dot nestled in the darkness of space

And then commands were sent to shut down their cameras. Preserve fuel.

35 years after launch, in 2012 voyager 1 sent back to us data about interstellar space. The very first manmade object to enter it.

41 years after launch voyager 2 did the same. Still operational, still going. Still sending back to us invaluable data, teaching us about our own solar system and the suns influence in our local bubble of space.

They are expected to continue to operate until the year 2025 - almost 50 whole years after they were launched and 36 years after their mission was supposed to have ended.

48 years of harsh space travel, battered by solar winds, pulled by gravity but fast enough just to escape, pelted by who knows how much space dust and radiation.

And even after that, they still have a purpose. Each craft was given a golden record. A disc filled with human knowledge and knowledge of humans and the planet they live on. Greetings and well-wishes to any prospective extraterrestrial life that could potentially pick it up. Co-ordinates, an invite. Samples of our music, the things we love, sounds of the earth, a story of our world. The surf, the wind, birds and whales, images of a mother, our moon, a sunset. Long after the voyager spacecrafts go dark, probably long after we are gone, they will still be doing their job; educating a species about our very tiny corner of the galaxy.

They are nasa's longest-running operation.

And it was all done using 70s technology.

So excuse me if I want a phone that lasts more than 2 years or a vacuum cleaner that doesn't break down after 6, or god fucking forbid, a refrigerator that will keep my food cold my entire fucking lifetime.

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The most beautiful footage of strangers dancing in public… https://twitter.com/Thorayaaa/status/1660180658646568967

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The only way to break the spell is for Odin to escape town, but he can’t even escape the bookstore that Loki put him in.

Then again, he’s basically still being treated like a god otherwise…

He is sealed in there for all of mankind’s safety

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As tiring as all this shit is, I can't in good faith continue to use spotify.

For anyone else jumping ship, I used to exportify.app to save my favorite playlists.

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found this today

Please use these terms correctly. Not doing so will deeply harm the people who actually have experienced trauma, gaslighting, triggers, and people who have NPD.

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Drop a bunch of emojis and random screaming. Complain the Kudo button stopped working after the eighteenth click. Post a gif of your dog. Give us the knowledge that you loved and were inspired so much that you had to shake us a little.

The very best thing you can do for an author is to comment on their fics! Kudos, too, of course, but if you read something, get in the habit of commenting even if it's just 'I loved this!' Or 'this was great!'

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“To whom it may concern,

I am a lawful and legal member of this great United States, and I need to report an illegal in my area. I live in [insert random place name here] and saw this person on [insert random place in that area] being suspicious. They were [insert minority] and speaking gibberish with another [insert minority] in their car and were being suspicious when I approached and asked politely what they were doing.

Please come and investigate this matter.

Sincerely, [insert randomly generated white name here]”

Pick areas not known for their minorities such as random small towns or an area you know well. Send them to a random street that is nothing but strip malls. Or barns. Or whatever your heart desires as long as it isn’t an area that ICE might actually try to naturally raid.

I’m not SAYING that you should do it. As a law abiding citizen, I must encourage you not to, in fact, use this in actuality. Maybe as more of a writing prompt for fiction.

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Tim being present is when they do all this stuff because he’s the only one smart enough and prepared enough to also fix it but also won’t rat them out because he’s also complicit.

Tim, finally able to go sleep after solving a rough case: Alright, line up.

Cassie, Bart and Kon: *all line up and stand at attention*

Tim: When I say don’t add to the population, I mean…?

Cassie, Bart and Kon in unison: Do not get pregnant, get someone else pregnant, clone someone, give a robot or Artificial Intelligence a consciousness or mess with the time stream and accidently increase fertility rates again.

Tim, nodding in approval: And when I say don’t remove from the population…?

Cassie, Bart and Kon: Don’t kill anyone or thing that has a soul or consciousness directly or inadvertently unless through the legal system or if it’s a genuine accident, in which it is not our fault.

Tim, rubbing his eyes tiredly and yawning: If you’re going to leave the planet or time period?

Cassie, Bart and Kon: Tell you or a trusted adult.

Tim: and who is a trusted adult?

Cassie, Bart and Kon: WonderWoman, Superman, Oracle, and Batman between 1 am to 11 pm only.

Tim: good job, gold stars all round.

Cassie, Bart and Kon: YES!

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SO many essays and reports I have personally written have either required an opposing source or I got assigned “the devil’s advocate” and had to outright write a report on the opposing end of the issue, even if I really sided with the other end of the argument.

I’m also a creative writer for fun, and I’ll look up unsavory topics because I’m writing a murder scene, trying to flesh out the psychological struggle after abuse, or just get into the mind of a character I’m writing or reading about. Before the internet - and even still - the library has been a great resource for all forms of knowledge.

It’s ok to be concerned if you see a trend, but it’s really simple to ask about their choices, and you can’t be the one to outright deny them their reads without further evidence. Becoming the Thought Police swiftly becomes a form of censorship.

newbie asked if we're supposed to look out for 'red flags' in interlibrary loan requests in reference to a request a patron had made for a book about cannibalism. she was looking expectantly at me like she was expecting me to be equally aghast at this........girl why would you work at a library if you want to play book police

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My cousin just complained in the big family group chat that our food standards in the US are shit. Now, mind you, we have a nice divide between left and right, but both sides are agreeing with this “nonpartisan” issue.

And I’m just sitting here wondering how much I wanna stir the pot.

Because, like, I could very well comment…

“Don’t worry! President Trump will stop all those announcements real soon!”

And then just post about how he is silencing agencies like the CDC and FDA. Hell, even Fox has this on their site:

But, then again, I’d rather not deal with their bullshit. Still, thought my beloved followers would appreciate my dark humor.

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sonic movie style study

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Cuddles

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