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It lives! 47-year-old Voyager 1 is back in action (www.digitaltrends.com)
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[โ€“] Shard 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Perhaps we can find solace in the fact that Voyager will stand as a monument to our determination for scientific progress, space exploration and technical ingenuity.

The probably of Voyager crashing into anything is so incredibly miniscule that it will very likely outlast our civilization and even us as a species. Any deterioration of the physical craft in a vacuum will be so slow it will last for geological timescales.