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It's so easy to anthropomorphize spacecraft like Voyager 2. I get choked up thinking about her bravely leaving the solar system, transmitting data until ~2025,
by thunk 16y ago
It's so easy to anthropomorphize spacecraft like Voyager 2. I get choked up thinking about her bravely leaving the solar system, transmitting data until ~2025, alone in empty space.
- trafficlight 16y agoXKCD nailed this perfectly when the Spirit rover got stuck and NASA had to call it quits. http://xkcd.com/695/ http://xkcd.com/695/
- bitwize 16y agoThere's a story by Vernor Vinge called The Long Shot you might want to look into.