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In reply to the discussion: Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn't used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away [View all]
GopherGal
(2,916 posts)39. When I hear stuff like this...
I have my own little "Proud to be an American" moment.
No apologies (at all) to that MAGAt Lee Greenwood.
Good ole American ingenuity to make the thing in the first place.
And more of it to keep it communicating years after they originally thought it would be dead in the water.
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Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn't used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away [View all]
sarisataka
Nov 2024
OP
Yep! How could it not be? (for those of us of a certain age and of certain likes)
Solly Mack
Nov 2024
#58
Nixon cut funding, then Rotten Ronnie damaged it, and it's been underfunded for years.
Hermit-The-Prog
Nov 2024
#21
I'm happy my tax dollars are spent on worthwhile projects like this..definitely got our money's worth
Deuxcents
Nov 2024
#27