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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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Does the “I’m gonna get a good grade in” person know the impact they’ve had. Do they know they did in fact got a good grade in post, something that’s both normal to want and possible to achieve,

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guy who scrolls through tf2 fanart and silently shakes his head in disapproval every time he sees a drawing of poor gun safety

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I see a lot of people recommending moving to signal proactively for normal texts. Does this make sense from a security perspective?

yes

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My name is Rawan. I am only 21. Everything around and in me has been reduced to sand and rubble. My house, my life, my future, my dreams, my soul. I don't feel like a person anymore. I look at the future awaiting us and I wish I had been the first person to die in the war.

How will we rebuild? There are no jobs because everything is destroyed and the price of food isn't lowering. Our rent has already increased, it's now $700 a month and that contract will only hold for a year. After that, it will double.

Please help me. I don't want to spend years in a tent again. I want to study all night in my room like I used to. I want to be warm and safe again. I'm losing my mind.

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Me showing u some dumb shit which makes no sense at all

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i CANT stop watching this japanese jerma dub my friend did

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Twin boys

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infinitely looping gif of utena rolling around

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I love mammals because like 20% of them look made up

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its dangerous to go alone. here, take these bilbies

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Btw, this is how conservatives keep getting to claim that trans people are a new thing no one has ever heard, because our history and existences have continually been erased or obscured systematically through out history.

The most famous example was 92 years when the Nazis raided the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, the medical practice where the term transsexual was first coined and the first gender affirming surgery was performed in in 1931.

What did the Nazis do after raiding the library on May 6th, 1933? You may be familiar with these images

It is happening again.

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Judy and Lynn in Gaza

In the picture before you are Judy and Lynn, two young girls from Gaza, holding on to big dreams despite the harshness of war. Judy dreams of becoming a writer to share her people's struggles, while Lynn uses her small colors to paint a world full of hope.

However, the bombing deprived them of education, turning their school into rubble. Yet, they continue to persevere; Judy writes on torn papers, and Lynn draws on shattered walls.

Donate to support Judy, Lynn, and the children of Gaza. Their dreams will build the future.

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