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.

@lauren As long as they can continue to spy on me and deliver ads to my desktop OS in a timely manner, I'm happy.
@JollyDigital Your Google recruiting email will arrive shortly.
@lauren I'm afraid they know all my secrets too!
@JollyDigital Actually, my times working inside Google gave me a great deal of faith in their privacy and security processes.