Voyager 1 was launched 40 years ago. Just last month its thrusters were remotely fired for the first time in 34 years.
Voyager 1 is currently 11.8 billion miles away from the earth.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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