15.7 billion miles (168 AU)
Americans will convert their miles to every yee yee ass unit under the sun before using metric.
To be fair AU means more to me than miles or km in this case… 168 times further from us than we are to the sun.
But since you want metric ~25.1 terameters.
But since you want metric ~25.1 terameters.
You think you’re being witty, but you’ve just unintentionally shown why the metric system is so good.
25.1 terameters => 25,100 gigameters => 25,100,000 kilometers.
Easy as pie.
Edit: Ahh crap, I forgot about megameters. It comes out to 25,100,000,000 km. Sorry for the metric ton of confusion.
Idk what these imperialist donkeys are talking about. 1 terameter is 10^6 kilometers. You’re spot on.
Thanks for the support, but I was indeed mistaken.
Ohh, now I see it. The typo at the bottom. Missed that.
You’re missing a few zeroes there I think
Just a few 😉
Psst. You forgot the megameters.
How could I forget about the megameters???
Your little off-by-one-thousand mistake is evidence that meters are ill-fitted for astronomy. au, al and pc exist for a reason
I checked and only au (astronomical unit) is listed in SI, while not being a SI unit per se
Never said they were fitted, just that the conversion between units is (supposed to be) simple.
It is but I would advise using scientific notation with exponent instead, it’s harder to make a mistake
Is Pi in metrics is 1.0?
It’s quiche in metric.
At that scale meters and miles are pretty close with respect to orders of magnitude, which is why practically everyone talks about these scales in AUs regardless of what units they actually used to do the science.
Ok but what about the shareholders?
No they’re still on Earth actually, though they’re running on software written in the 50s
Voyager 3 will stop working halfway to Mars because it’ll try to verify the subscription status with us-east-1 and get a timeout.
And it’ll blow up half way into the sky because it was sent up by SpaceX.
But, but… How do we extract value from it? No micro transactions? No ad revenue? Can we sell it? Write it off as a loss? Is there at least a credit card reader so aliens can sign up for recurring payments?
It’s a moonshot in that it has a very tiny likelihood of attracting alien intelligence that is such a game changer that it brings an unfathomable amount of wealth to our planet.
Allien Intelligence = potential investors and potential shareholder value. They could also destroy the planet.
I’d argue that the type of people who make those investment decisions often don’t put the proper weight on “destroy the planet” risk when calculating their expected value.
Jokes on us, investors and shareholders are already doing that.
They’re already bought puts for the case…
Plus if the documentaries, “2012” and snowpiercer have taught us anything. It’s that the rich will survive.
Someone will try to run Doom on it.
But can it run Crysis?
Only VGR can do that.
It’s a hippy. On a road trip. It’s memory is the size of a thimble. It’s listening to hippy music.
And it’s far out, man.
I wonder if any aliens ever ran into this, if they’d be like wow, this tech is so low, let’s not bother with who sent it.
Or if they’d be like, it looks like it took 100 years to get here, let’s see what they did in 100 years.
Google would be the worst partner for any space related work. We plan on launching in 4 years. Oh, Google says they redesigned it, oh, now it needs updates. 3 years, 11 mo later… Google cancelled the program, we need to find another partner.
October 20st, 2023: NASA’s Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters
The team is also uploading a software patch to prevent the recurrence of a glitch that arose on Voyager 1 last year. Engineers resolved the glitch, and the patch is intended to prevent the issue from occurring again in Voyager 1 or arising in its twin, Voyager 2.
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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have traveled more than 15 billion and 12 billion miles from Earth, respectively. At those distances, the patch instructions will take over 18 hours to travel to the spacecraft. Because of the spacecraft’s age and the communication lag time, there’s some risk the patch could overwrite essential code or have other unintended effects on the spacecraft. To reduce those risks, the team has spent months writing, reviewing, and checking the code. As an added safety precaution, Voyager 2 will receive the patch first and serve as a testbed for its twin. Voyager 1 is farther from Earth than any other spacecraft, making its data more valuable.
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Voyager’s mission parameters and expectations have only decreased since 1977, it will never be required to run newer software or investigate new objects. It is winding down and is just sending back enough data that we can use our more powerful Earth-based computers to detect the most subtle changes to the cosmic medium.
Meanwhile, we have a constantly accelerating global marketplace of new software and new ways of both working and playing games. If ya’ll were operating on a system designed to stay functional for 40+ years you would not like that system.
All that said, we do have a pretty bad problem with bloatware and software/hardware companies colluding to leverage consumers to buy and upgrade phones and computers more than necessary.
I just don’t think it’s a fair comparison if we were to get really pedantic and serious about a joke meme.
If ya’ll were operating on a system designed to stay functional for 40+ years you would not like that system.
Sure would. I’m sick of the move at all and break things in modern software ecosystems. Were things this bad in CLI land too, until POSIX?
Sure would
Correct, a lot of ppl who started using emacs at inception still do so today.
It’s not only commercial software.
We’ve come to expect more from our computers and as our processors gain more power we find ways to use it. I’m running things on a laptop that before would have required a workstation. I wanted to run an LLM on an old desktop, and 8GB RAM wasn’t enough.
True, but one of the biggest things we’re using that power for recently is “why bother optimizing?” With splashes of “can we obtain any more data from the user?”
Windows XP is more than halfway there. In case you wanted to feel old today.
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The backache and frustration with the number 67 for existing already did that, but thank you for reminding me that we had a good Windows OS once.
Yeah, there aren’t many hackers in space.
That we know of
… Bruh!
Yea but can you imagine how long that thing takes to load a JPEG?
That’s impressive, but in the end there is only one question:
Can it run Crysis?
I thought the benchmark was whether it can play Doom?
No, everything can run Doom.
Except ur mom because she’s so fat she can’t run.
Sorry, a joke from the Doom era escaped…
Her pacemaker can run it though
Her vibrator can as well.
I’m kinda surprised there isn’t an old Newgrounds animation based off this concept.
If this computer from the 1950s can play DOOM, I’m gonna say there’s a good chance the Voyager computer can: https://youtu.be/no0CkQk7id0
Dude! This is rad!
I thought I’d just check it out and move on, but the subject, aspects and video editing pulled me in more. Solid video share! =D
Now.
Nothing can run Crysis properly…
Real crisis has never been tried before
What about Deep Blue?
That’s a long way still only 1/374th of a light year, to keep things in perspective.
I thought it hit a light day away a couple years ago, or was that Voyager 2?
Amazon not mentioned because they’re down
Don’t let Microsoft get a pass azure went down last week too
It’s always DNS
Sure, but how many football fields away is it?
How many hotdogs laid end-to-end?
there are no football fields in space, so zero
275 billion football fields away, which might be just shy of a field goal
