Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.
It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.
The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.
By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.
NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.
The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.
Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.
We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.
That's what engineering for the long term looks like.
No jobs, only elderly who can't afford to move, the younger groups, familys have already moved to where there's jobs and more things to do. Most stores have closed, not close to major city with those resources including doctors, hospitals. I bought land in an area in AZ with those issues. Beautiful area though.
@mikeroweworks I can't tell you how many times my family members have watched Airplane together. lines from the movie repeated in our daily lives for all these decades... don't ask the women in my fam how they like their coffee! its automatic. excited to see a truly careless smart comedy again.
@StandUpForTrmp Well, if that's why, maybe you are looking at it wrong, we were smart enough to pay for an education and still made money. We weren't brainwashed into thinking the way you're professors wanted you think
Uniparty Republicans—including the 81 who just voted with Democrats to keep sending your hard-earned money to the far-left NED—are making a mockery of the voters who elected them
Pick a horse—and ride it
If you’d rather ride a donkey, you’re probably in the wrong party
Yep That was how America was built by immigrants from the past centuries. People came, They worked, They assimilated,They built And they survived, They were given nothing. Immigrants now come to take and take and take, and don't want to assimilate.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. SCOTUS Justice Sam Alito asks ACLU lawyer "what is a man and a woman?" and they DON'T HAVE A DEFINITION.
Alito's response is perfect.
ALITO: What does it mean to be a man or woman?
ACLU: We do not have a definition for the Court.
ALITO: How can a court determine whether there's discrimination on the basis of s*x, without KNOWING what s*x means?!
Omg, you can't make this crap up. Seriously.
@CarolineVoaden Go ahead, leave X, Go to your echo chamber and post your gripes where only those who already agree or think like you MAY see your post.....