Engineers are confident that shutting down the LECP will give Voyager 1 about a year of breathing room. They are using the time to finalize a more ambitious energy-saving fix for both Voyagers they call “the Big Bang,” which is designed to further extend Voyager operations. The idea is to swap out a group of powered devices all at once — hence the nickname — turning some things off and replacing them with lower-power alternatives to keep the spacecraft warm enough to continue gathering science data.
Why can’t we be as forward thinking as the people who created the voyager probes?
There is no way that disparity is that close.
Jesus that is a sobering figure I did not need to see today.
And it’s quite outdated, I think from 2022. It has become much worse since
It actually doesn’t really show much, except maybe that inflation exists and people generally have more money now.
If it’s supposed to show how the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, it does a lousy job. It’s practically impossible to see the relative change between the groups, since the lower two graphs’ behaviors are impossible to see. The only thing that can at least somewhat be seen is that the top 10% and the top 1% grow quite correspondingly.
So, basically that graph shows that everything seems to be as fair as it has always been. Probably wasn’t the intention, and certainly not a good representation of what’s happening. It’s very possible that the top 1% is included also in the top 10% and dominates it, but just based on that graph it’s impossible to know.
Now please show an inflation adjusted graph or better one that shows in percentage how much each fraction owns of the wealth pie.
Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 - just before the Reagan era. Coincidence?
Also, and I’m still just guessing here, it’s probably the culmination of the space race to the moon minus the pressure to be there before the Russians.
In other words, NASA’s Golden Age.
Relatedly, For All Mankind makes me sad since in that universe, the space race is still on.
Also, the tech was “just right” then. Small and frugal enough to fit on a probe but still robust enough to survive more than a few years in space.
not enough engineers use LSD anymore because they’ll lose their entire career over it and be blacklisted from government contracts forever.
the McCarthys won.
It’s not profitable