I think that’s when you watch two shows at the same time.

I mean… 20 years ago when we only had Xanga, MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal, LinkedIn, and many others. Even Facebook is 21 years old now… though it didn’t become available for everyone for a couple years after that.

As to the sensing mechanism specifically I am not sure other than that it has to do with detecting a differential in energy, but the sensor in question is the Low Energy Charged Particle Instrument.

I had a feeling somebody was going to point that out…

Despite what capitalists would like you to believe technology hasn’t changed all that much in 50 years. Sure there have been some novel technologies more recently like blue LEDs or CRISPR-Cas9. But the real advance since the 70s has been in miniaturization, allowing more things to be put in the same amount of space as before.

Also one point of clarification, Voyager is a space probe, not a satellite. Satellites orbit things and can be naturally occurring.

It felt so weird when Tim Walz was lauded as a “gift to progressives” when he was running on a platform of “kids deserve food”.