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Voyager 1 is still transmitting from beyond the heliosphere on 22 watts — less power than the bulb in your hallway — and the engineers who built it in the 1970s never expected we'd still be listening half a century later (spacedaily.com)
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[–] 2 points 5 months ago

That's because the cartel ceased to operate almost a hundred years ago...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

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