Windows fudges it again

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I seem to recall they used radiation-hardened PPC running at around 33MHz for many of their recent probes.

Actually I think it was slower than that.

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You're probably right, I think 33MHz was the upper limit even: Info here (PDF document).

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Holy crap, it's tolerant to over 1M rad (10,000 Gy)...

What is a more beautiful thought (for me at least), is that once the Earth and human race have been destroyed by our dying sun... one of the few things that will survive is the odd little RCA1802 CPU that has faithfully powered the Voyager spacecraft for over 30years...

It could well be that the two Voyager's will be the only evidence of our ever having existed... It's like a gothic romance in it's beauty

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Well, it will survive, but the radiological thermocouple power supplies that keep them functioning will have long decayed past the point where the probe operates. Travelling at the speed they do, any chance meeting with a lump of Oort cloud debris (remote, but there is a huge thickness of it to traverse) would presumably leave only a slowly expanding shell of particles as the evidence of our ever having existed.

Not quite as beautiful... but tragic none the less.. :-D

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The Earth and our race with it (if we don't become properly space-faring by then) will have been killed off by the Sun long before it's epic final expansion. IIRC, within about 2G years, thermal output will have increased enough to heat the Earth to levels uninhabitable to all but the toughest extremophile micro-organisms anyway. Well, at least those that can survive in water vapour droplets, since we're talking about total evaporation of the oceans here.

That's assuming that the gradual changes of the inner planet orbits haven't resulted in a massive collision incident between any of them by then, either.

Ooooh, this is a cheery thread...

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Look on the bright side though. Microsoft will die with us...

Yay! Every cloud has a silver lining...

cue Karlos photoshopping an image of the death of Khan with Steve Balmers distended face pasted in...

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No time. Will this do?



Btw, photoshop? What do you think I am, a graphic designer or summat? :lol:

Photoshopping the verb, not the application