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A team at NASA are now pouring through decades old documents on how the probe and its computers work - extremely outdated technology that has been all but forgotten.OTOH, you can probably reverse that relation when it comes to EMI susceptibility. Your smartphone processor wouldn't even boot up properly, and fail in milliseconds. The did high-voltage and larger-scale semiconductors into spacecraft for a reason.
Today, the phone in your hand can handle more than 100 billion instructions a second. The Voyager's computers can process just 8,000 a second.
If Voyager 1's outgoing data can be fixed, scientists hope it can continue until the mission's 50th birthday.But compare that to the average smartphone life expectancy ...
I'm guessing the 1's and 0's it is sending is basically a simply message saying:Perhaps that is why it got so far away ...
"I'm tired of babies dying in Gaza"...
"But compare that to the average smartphone life expectancy" It is all preposterous.As a side note, I see three problems with modern "hi-tech" items like smartphones.
The time required for a radioactive substance to lose 50 percent of its radioactivity by decay is known as the half-life. Plutonium-238, plutonium-239, and plutonium-240 are isotopes of plutonium, and have half-lives of 87 years for plutonium-238, 24,065 years for plutonium-239, and 6,537 years for plutonium-240.Now - here is some more detail:
Plutonium was first produced by Glenn T. Seaborg, Joseph W. Kennedy, Edward M. McMillan and Arthur C. Wohl by bombarding an isotope of uranium, uranium-238, with deuterons that had been accelerated in a device called a cyclotron. This created neptunium-238 and two free neutrons. Neptunium-238 has a half-life of 2.1 days and decays into plutonium-238 through beta decay. Although they conducted their work at the University of California in 1941, their discovery was not revealed to the rest of the scientific community until 1946 because of wartime security concerns. Plutonium's most stable isotope, plutonium-244, has a half-life of about 82,000,000 years. It decays into uranium-240 through alpha decay. Plutonium-244 will also decay through spontaneous fission.Jefferson Lab, U.S. Department of EnergyPlutonium is the second transuranium element of the actinide series. Element 93 was discovered in 1940/41 by Glenn T. Seaborg, Edwin M. McMillan, J. W. Kennedy, and A. C. Wahl by deuteron bombardment of uranium-238 in the 60-inch cyclotron at the University of California, Berkeley Lab. They first synthesized neptunium-238 (half-life 2.1 days) which subsequently beta-decayed to form a new heavier element with atomic number 94 and atomic weight 238 (half-life 87.7 years). It was fitting that element 94 be named after the next planetoid, Pluto following the precedence that uranium was named after the planet Uranus and neptunium after the planet Neptune. Seaborg submitted a paper to the journal Physical Review in March 1941 documenting the discovery, but the paper was quickly withdrawn when it was found that an isotope of plutonium, Pu-239 could undergo nuclear fission making it useful in developing an atomic bomb. Pu-239 had a fission cross-section 50% greater than that of 235U, the best fissioning element known at that time.[Link]
The three naturally abundant actinide isotopes: uranium-235 (704 million years), uranium-238 (4.468 billion years), and thorium-232 (14.05 billion years).I don't know about Plutonium, but let's take Uranium-235 ... naturally abundant but it has a half life of 704 million years. Can we assume that it was possibly formed 350 million years ago ... What happened?
Scientists at NASA are desperately trying to fix the glitch from 24 billion kilometers (15 billion miles) away .The Sun orbits our galaxy's centre at 864,000 km/h ... just over 20 million km/day, or 7.5 billion km/year
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Are there "blanks" in the discourse - if so those blanks are sort of like the option to say NO:
I choose neither the red pill nor the blue one - fuck you!