Wishing a Happy 47th Birthday to Voyager 1.
After a year filled with challenges, the NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft is still boldly going where no spacecraft has gone before.
After 47 years in space, it is 24.61 billion km (22.8 light hours) from Earth, traveling at a brisk speed of 61,198 km/h relative to the Sun, sending science data back to humanity from the few instruments that still remain powered on.
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She is good. So smart & brutally succinct; quick on her feet; aggressive as hell. Which is AWESOME. I'm managing my expectations, but I'm looking forward to this one.
If it happens. Ha.
Five stars: Kill or Bee Killed by Jennie Marts and Cris Dukehart (Narrator) (2024) is the second book in the Bee Keeping mystery series. Humble Hills is having a baking contest during it's annual Bee Festival. A news anchor from Los Angeles has come to host but ends up murdered before the contest is even over.
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Just updated "A Cat's Tale" for #iOS 
This should hopefully solve the crash issue and improve controlls and interaction. Also added new quests 
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Linkin Park has a new single out, with a new lead singer. I'm not familiar with her, but she feels... right. #music #LinkinPark #TheEmptinessMachine
ECS(Fargate)上に構築したLocustからAPIサーバ(Go)経由で、TiDB Cloudにクエリを実行してみた
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J.D. Vance’s rally at a mega-church with a pastor spewing venomous anti-LGBTQ hate and misogyny is a grotesque display of his true colors. Aligning himself with a figure who dismisses domestic abuse and glorifies bigotry, Vance is not just pandering to extremism—he’s amplifying it. His defense of the pastor is a pitiful attempt to mask his own moral rot. Vance is the embodiment of the Republican Party’s descent into pure evil, using religion as a cloak for his toxic, hateful agenda.
The framing on this story is wild. Summary: as a deadly fungal epidemic in bats spread across the US, increased insect activity resulted in an average 31% increase in pesticide use by local farmers, resulting in an average 8% increase in human infant mortality in affected areas.
And the message is: bats provide important economic benefits.
And yes, very true.
But also: The correlation between pesticide use & infant mortality is that well known & it's still allowed???
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in reply to AkaSci 🛰️ • • •February 13-14, 1990 - from a distance of 6 billion km, beyond the orbit of Neptune, Voyager 1 pointed its camera towards the inner solar system and snapped a series of 60 images that were composed to create the first-ever Solar System Family Portrait.
At 04:48 GMT, Feb 14, 1990, Voyager took the images of Earth, the "Pale Blue Dot." 34 minutes later, its cameras were turned off forever to conserve power and since there were no objects in its path left to image.
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in reply to AkaSci 🛰️ • • •What's in the future for Voyager?
In 10-15 years, they will not have sufficient power to even communicate with earth but they will trudge on.
Voyager 1 is expected to reach the theorized Oort cloud in ~300 years and pass thru it in ~30,000 years. In about 40,000 years, it will pass within 1.6 light-years of the star Gliese 445, which is 17.1 light-years from Earth. In 300,000 years, it will pass within less than 1 light-year of the M3V star TYC 3135–52–1.
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