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The voyager program was made possible by a very specific alignment of the planets which only occurs every 175 years
by krilly 7y ago
The voyager program was made possible by a very specific alignment of the planets which only occurs every 175 years
- lizknope 7y agoThe joke the JPL crew always say is that the last time the planets aligned like that was when Thomas Jefferson was President and he blew it.
- melling 7y agoThat joke was actually used on President Nixon. It’s mentioned in the movie The Farthest. https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.3.20170811a/full/ https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.3.2017081...