Voyager 1 is the loneliest pioneer humanity has ever launched, and it is still flying perfectly, forty-eight years later, on a course set in 1977 that has never needed a single correction.Imagine that: on September 5, 1977, a 825-kilogram golden spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral. Engineers gave it one decisive push with gravity assists from Jupiter and Saturn, then essentially said, “Go. We’ll never touch you again.” And it listened. For thirty-seven straight years (until the first tiny trim in 2017, only to align the antenna), Voyager 1 hurtled through space without a single thruster firing to fix its path. Not one. That’s like throwing a paper airplane from New York and having it glide untouched through a window in Paris, four decades later.Right now, in December 2025, Voyager 1 is 163 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, more than 24.4 billion kilometers away, the farthest human-made object in history. It crossed the heliopause (the Sun’s protective bubble) in 2012 and is now sailing through true interstellar space, where the wind between the stars is colder than anything we can create on Earth. Yet its trajectory is still so impeccable that the flight team jokes the spacecraft could hit a cosmic bullseye drawn half a century https://t.co/Ivypyn1uvT has already given us the pale blue dot photo, the first portraits of Jupiter’s raging storms and Saturn’s rings in impossible detail, and the discovery that moons like Io and Titan are worlds stranger than fiction. Now, with its power fading to barely four watts (less than a refrigerator lightbulb), it still whispers data back across the void on a 23-watt signal that takes 22 hours and 55 minutes to reach us, one-way.Voyager 1 isn’t just a probe. It’s a message in a bottle flung toward the galaxy, carrying the sounds of Earth (whales, Chuck Berry, and a baby’s cry) on its golden record. And it’s still flying straight, as if to prove that human foresight, once aimed true, can outrun time itself.Out there in the dark, a tiny golden speck keeps its ancient promise: keep going, perfectly, forever.
What's the point?
I mean, really?
God exists? God doesn't exist.
Which one is the correct god?
Is the truth out there?
Why do said gods always want blood?
Why can't things just happen? Does it have to be for a reason?
@CragerJonathan No one person, regardless of political affiliation, will fix all the things. For us to trade one evil for another is a major component of the inherit problem.
“This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”
A. Hamilton
@astros I was watching and listening..didn't hear any trashcans. @TeamCJCorrea hell of a catch and way to go yard. @KTuck30 that's the way to be, a superstar-4/5 with massive bombs. Valdez pitched a HELL of a game. I LOVE my team.
@komondors@jjalvarez25@ecatmeow @JulieOliverTX That is true with a car loan, but with that kind of loan you agreed to certain terms (interest rate, length of loan, etc...). Now, I didn't take or partake in a PPP loan, so I do not know the details, but if you did please enlighten me. Interest? Length of loan? Maturation date?
@JulieOliverTX Real question:
I get what you're saying about payroll tax. Makes sense, to me. When you spoke of putting money into the hands of the people, where does that money come from?
@strosbeforeh0s#nailedit he's a joke. There's a reason why people like Kanye are running...it's because the overall population don't care to think for themselves. They would rather have someone tell them how to think.