408
A 1977 Time Capsule, Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
(techfixated.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2026
408 points (99.3% liked)
Technology
83195 readers
2768 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Its hard to maintain a link with a craft outside or solar system. There's a very tight orientation requirement and you have to set a very large delay for the expected response.
Come on now, it's not that bad.
Voyager 1 is just 23h 32m 9.981s light seconds away.
One way.
It takes me about a day to respond to messages too. Therefore I'm also ~23 light hours away.
So slightly better ping than my ISP, then.
By some measures, it hasn't even left the solar system yet.
But 403 is "Forbidden".
So...
Leslie Nielsen?! Who does he play? The robot or the woman in the robots hands?
He plays "Commander Adams". It's been a while since I've seen it, but as I recall it's a pretty decent sci-fi movie. And it's the only serious role that I think I've ever seen him in.
He was a dramatic actor up until he did Airplane! That's one of the reasons he was cast in the role.
Surely you can’t be serious.
and don't call me Shirley
Yeah for a 60s sci fi movie it's pretty good
50s sci fi movie, actually.
Part of that groundbreaking film stuff starting in that decade, kicking off our modern understanding of the genre.
Twilight Zone also comes to mind.
Currently watching season 2 of it. Totally great stuff, so many "firsts" in there!
When I'm on a plane I still idly think about the possibility of there being a gremlin out there on the wing eating an engine...
(I fly a lot and even learned to fly gliders/sailplanes back in the day, so definitely not afraid of flying, but if I'm ever sat next to William Shatner I'm deplaning. No point taking chances. ;-).)
I have not seen this episode yet (it's in season 5, just checked).
Definitely looking forward to it!
We just watched the "Nick of time" episode not to long. Came as a surprise that Shatner was in there - it was kind of a culture shock for my son, suddenly seeing "Captain Kirk" as a superstitious groom in a 50s era dinner... :-)