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NASA's Voyager 1 Spacecraft Is Speaking Gibberish (gizmodo.com.au)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can NASA start making motherboards for PCs? Average lifetime for one now is under 10 years

[–] lurch 3 points 11 months ago

They usually become outdated before they break, ie. an important component like the CPU can't be upgraded any more, because it won't fit, so you need to upgrade the whole thing.