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Voyager 1, we read you! ?
A historic first, NASA’s Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex (MDSCC) arrayed all six antennas to receive data from @NASAVoyager earlier this year. The spacecraft is sending signals through interstellar space from nearly 16 billion miles away. pic.twitter.com/uEHqRJVQgF
— NASA Space Communications and Navigation (@NASASCaN) October 16, 2024
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since Sat., 25 Nov. 2006:
“An historic…” C’mon NASA, you can do grammar better.
Father,
I’m only a year younger than you. I remember the moon landing, Skylab, etc… vividly. But when I was little, I wanted to be a cowboy. NEVER an astronaut. My attitude toward space stuff has always been that of Sherlock Holmes.
I read the entire Sherlockian Canon when I was 14. I remember coming across this, and thinking, “That’s me!”
Luddite forever! lol.
“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge…My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to me to be such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.
“You appear to be astonished,” he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. “Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.”
“To forget it!?”
“You see,” he explained, “It is of the highest importance…not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
“But the Solar System!” I protested.
“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently: “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me.”
~ Dr. John Watson to Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlet