<div dir="ltr">"<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px">NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has</span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px"> </span>gone interstellar<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px">.</span><p style="margin:20px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:13.63636302947998px;line-height:20px">
Launched in 1977, the probe is vintage space hardware. At more than 36 years old, or roughly a millennium in computer years, it’s an impressive feat to have the spacecraft drifting through the material between stars. Looking at the machine’s specs is a reminder of how far electronics have come in the intervening years."</p>
<div><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/vintage-voyager-probes/">www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/vintage-voyager-probes/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Apart from an enjoyable few minutes of muttering "8 inch floppy disks?? LUXURY! I remember when we had to record data on the backs of Persian cats..." it might be useful for your kids to get a sense of the pace at which technology is developing.</div>
<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">--<div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(253,253,255)"><font size="1">Day 19, I have successfully conditioned my master to smile and write in his book every time I drool.- Pavlov's Dog</font></span><br>
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