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Nick Szabo· 2026-02-05 02:00
RT Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta)The signal strength hitting Earth from Voyager 1 is less than one trillionth of a watt.To put that in perspective, your phone’s WiFi signal is roughly 100 billion times stronger, and it drops a connection walking between rooms.NASA picks up Voyager’s whisper using arrays of 70-meter antennas, then reconstructs coherent data from it at 160 bits per second. That’s slower than a 1990s modem. Downloading a single photograph at that rate would take weeks.The spacecraft itself runs o ...