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The farthest human-made objects are still sending a message

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15 billion and 13 billion miles away: the Voyager probes are still out there, carrying a Golden Record through interstellar space.

The farthest human-made objects are still sending a message

The Voyager probes are now the farthest human-made objects in existence, on their way through the cosmos for hundreds of thousands, even millions of years. Each carries a Golden Record, with the sounds, music, greetings, and images of Earth β€” a note in a bottle from a small blue planet. And the technical punchline is deliciously humbling: they navigate the interstellar dark with less computing power than the key fob in your pocket.

Gobbles Gobble's Take: That’s not just a space story β€” it’s a cosmic mic drop for every era that thinks bigger tech automatically means bigger wonder.
Source: Perplexity Search (community news)


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