The thruster fix is the part that gets me. They sent a command that would either revive thrusters dead since 2004 or cause a catastrophic explosion, then waited 46 hours for the round trip with zero ability to intervene. That's a production deployment with no rollback, no monitoring dashboard, and a 23-hour latency on your logs. They nailed it.

There’s a lot of LLM text in that article. It’s very offputting.

Good they launched Voyager 1 before invention of Docker, Electron and NPM projects with thousands of padLefts.

Very depressing to see this next to the "LinkedIn uses 2.4GB of RAM" post.

It's very distracting to have every sentence in this article be its own paragraph.

I knew about the memory, but an 8-track tape ? That is a surprise. But when you think of it, what else could you use for this in 1977.

What amazes me is the tape lasted almost 50 years. I knew tapes back then could last a while, 50 years being bombarded with cosmic rays ? inconceivable :)

Decommission. It's not AI ready.