Wonka

If you don’t go when you want to go, when you do go, you’ll find you’ve gone.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In November, a NASA spacecraft that has been drifting through space since 1977 will be so far from Earth that light itself takes a full day to reach it. Send it a message on Monday morning, you won't hear back until Wednesday. It's called Voyager 1.

For more than 45 years it has been gliding at 38,000 miles an hour on a straight line out of our solar system. It has not adjusted course since 1980. Every year it loses about 4 watts of power from the small chunks of plutonium that keep it warm and transmitting. It's like your phone's battery shrinking a little each year, except the spacecraft weighs as much as a small car and nobody can walk over to plug it in.

The whole spacecraft runs on 69KB of computer memory. That is less than a single photo on your phone, and its signal home crawls back at 160 bits per second, slower than dial-up internet from the 1990s. A modern smartphone has roughly 175,000 times more memory than the computer that left Earth before most people alive today were born.

NASA built it to last five years. The original mission ended at Saturn in 1980. Everything after that, leaving our solar system in 2012 to become the most distant object humanity has ever built, was a bonus.

The plutonium core will probably run out around 2036. That gives us maybe a decade of data from a place no other machine will reach in our lifetime. Then the radio goes quiet for good.

Bolted to its side is a gold-plated copper disc carrying 116 images, 90 minutes of music from around the world, natural sounds of Earth, and greetings in 55 languages. In about 40,000 years it will drift within 1.6 light-years of a small red star called Gliese 445. If anyone ever finds it, nobody we know will be alive to hear about it.

[Shishir @ShishirShelke1]

Artemis II crew is thousands of miles away from Earth

And they’re asking ground crew for help because they have two versions of Microsoft Outlook open and neither is working

This scene is now canon 😭

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

This kid is very excited about going back to the moon

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Kid just SMOKED a CNN reporter outside of Artemis II launch:

CNN: "Why do you want to be here?... Why do you love being a part of history?

Kid: "We're going back to the f*cking moon, that's why!" 🤣

[Brian Nemhauser @hawkblogger]

This is the best content you'll see today

[DΞLUXΞ @TheDeluxe4]

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[tarik @tarik]

Your daily reminder to not give a fuck.

[Wonka @Muknavv]

I feel so blessed to be able to receive phone calls from my parents ❤️🙏🥹

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

I’m proud of this one.

I brought a solar telescope to Florida to capture a Falcon 9 rocket launch transiting the sun. While these have been captured before, never with the details of the sun’s chromosphere, which makes this one the first!

See the video or get the print below 👇

[Wonka @Muknavv]

@hashjenni True, but why use a fake image? The lock button for these phones was above the camera

[nina. @ninadelaflores]

My MIL is a teacher and she told me they aren’t allowed to teach kids the concept of ‘context clues’ anymore.

Something about that is so sinister 😭 bc why they don’t want these kids putting 2 and 2 together?

[Wonka @Muknavv]

It is stupid how many video game companies are trying to claim a physical copy is ‘not your game’ but the state of Colorado says a streaming service is personal property.

[Michael Vance @michaelkvance]

🚨🚨 Colorado’s new “Netflix Tax,” upheld by the Court of Appeals on July 3, 2025, is hitting streamers where it hurts: their wallets and their choices. By classifying streaming subscriptions like Netflix as “tangible personal property” under a 1935 tax code, the state is imposing a 2.9% sales tax—plus local taxes, often totaling 7-8%—on services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and more. While the state claims this modernizes tax policy, it’s a troubling overreach that not only burdens consumers financially but also raises serious concerns about labeling licensed digital media as “personal property.” This policy risks shrinking streaming options, mischaracterizing digital goods, and setting a dangerous precedent for how we define ownership in the digital age.

[Jay Jurden @JayJurden]

If there’s one family who HATES surprises

[Wonka @Muknavv]

@NSFVoyager2 @NASAVoyager Hey, just curious, why is the time going backwards from each post?

[Brandon Herrera @TheAKGuy]

Man, TV when I was a kid was crazy 👀

[Wonka @Muknavv]

If LeBron was so pressed on money, he would’ve signed with Reebok for $10m. He knew he was going to get money and could wait a little longer to sign with who he wanted. I have no doubt Jordan was apart of the final decision

[⁸𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚 @33643pts]

Yeah the guy that had to move in with his football coach at 9 years old because his mom was living on welfare signed a $90m contract because of Jordan 👍👍

[kev @AwestruckVox]

so it’s no longer a dead internet “theory” just a dead internet reality 🙂