Lauren Weinstein on Nostr: Because Voyager 1 is so far from Earth, it takes almost 23 hours for a command to ...
Because Voyager 1 is so far from Earth, it takes almost 23 hours for a command to reach it at the speed of light, and the same for a response to reach us back, for a total of close to 50 hours.
Which means that interactions with Voyager 1, currently around 15 billion miles away, are still faster than many Microsoft Windows updates.
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