Comment on Voyager 1

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  takes long drag off cigarette “I’m too old for this shit”

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You sure? The smell off some of the corpses will have been terrible.

  I’m not saying they’re all dead, but an intern at the time of launch would now be 70. Anybody who actually designed anything is… Well… The odds of them still being around are low.

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  • Flummoxed@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have a uncle who worked on Apollo writing machine code, and he is a spry, clear-headed 80-something-year-old.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IIRC, they did pull in a guy who had just started his career on the project.

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• whostosay@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Son of a bitch, I’m in.

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• yetiftw@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  do I hear heist movie?

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