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Voyager suffers a power wobble as boffins start the final countdown for Spitzer

Unicornpiss
Meh

Re: Just wow

"I honestly don't believe it would be possible for us to produce such an amazing piece of technology now.

Well, the Mars probes were and continue to be pretty robust. But I share your viewpoint. IMHO mostly because there is apparently a 2nd Moore's law that relates to bureaucracy and red tape, and we haven't yet topped out on how funding, people failing upwards, lack of communication, and other staples of management can destroy a project so fast that all that remains is the Cherenkov radiation from its abrupt cancellation.

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