Armin Hanisch“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.”
— Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager team
1.3.6.1.4.1.61513@Linkshaender so we can't add keeloq to voyager?
LetTheSkyRainPotatoes@Linkshaender Damn. It’s like they ripped Voyager’s computer brain out of a Pong machine. That’s insanely impressive.
Michael BuschMy car key is not multiply-redundant and radiation & thermal-vac tested to work for half a century.
The Voyager computers are.
Very different design requirements - as well as fifty years of engineering.
Giles Goat@michael_w_busch @RJK @Linkshaender Your car keys will never reach the extremes of the solar system and be able to tell us the story either 😅
Primo@Linkshaender I don't have a car!
@Linkshaender One of my ex bosses used to scream in despair when some things were going wrong "They went to the moon with less than a Z80 and now we need 1 Mbyte to send a one line email!" .. and this was around 1996 .. now with AIs and such we probably need 1Tbyte to have an "AI assistant" sending a ( wrong ) email for you 😅
David Lyford-Tilley@Linkshaender USB C charging cables likely also qualify
Robert Burgholzer@Linkshaender I feel like there's a lesson buried in here... if I just had a few more teraflops of AI processing power I think I could tease it out.
Ron Revog@Linkshaender
I thought Star Trek Voyager 🫣
I thought Star Trek Voyager 🫣
Kelsey Jordahl@RonRevog @Linkshaender nope, it's Star Trek V'ger
AndiS 🌞🍷🇪🇺It might be a big task to find 'any' curtently produced microcontroller with comparably low computing power as the Voyager probes.
Stefan Müller 
@Linkshaender I do not have a car. But I have a key to a car. Somebody must have forgotten it someday. But I do not have it in my pocket.
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Bakunin Boys@Linkshaender aliens in front of their space ships be like "wtf I'm sure I locked this thing this morning..."