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I get it. Sometimes my voice gets hoarse too.

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Humans will be extinct, and Voyager will still be carrying our mixtape through eternity.

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And still it won’t quit.

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It is quite legit.

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Some would say, too legit, even.

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Whenever someone tells me 1 GiB of RAM isn’t enough, i think of Voyager.

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Clearly they need to upload more RAM…

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Voyager wasn’t written in JavaScript, to Web 2.0

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Let’s see Voyager load up Chrome real quick

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Voyager is it’s own search engine. Why would it need chrome?

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Every few months there is a similar such story about this ancient marvel of technology and the people remotely maintaining it against all odds.

I can imagine a headline 100 years from now:

Engineers are modifying Voyager 1 decorative panel bolt into a functional interstellar communicator

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A hacker has hijacked the communication relay and managed to install Doom on the Voyager. The game runs perfectly but the user interface is reported to be somewhat laggy.

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… He then went on to check if he could run Crysis on it.

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each line of code is transmitted over a bandwidth that only supports 1/2 a bit, and it takes 3.5 years to reach the Voyager

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