Google photos popped up one of its โmemoriesโ notifications for me today, where it picks a picture from the past to highlight. It titled this one โMoonlightโ.
โฆand itโs from the eclipse in 2017, pretty much the exact opposite of moonlight. 
i kinda hate that all the coverage treats this as a failure, when getting to the moon in the first place and landing intact is so difficult.
It will have to be fixed and sent home.
Perhaps it will run into an alien probe and merge.
But too bad โ letโs hope they have luck turning it off and then on again.
Does NASA have the budget to send someone 15 gigamiles to service it?
It would be cool if aliens with a sense of humor found the Voyagers, fixed them up with new power supplies and better hardware, and left them in the Solar system, say, in Jupiter orbit, beaming back tons of high-quality data with maybe the occasional smiley face picture or Rickroll.
Or they could leave one on a pedestal on Mars, within view of Curiosity or Perseverance.
6% larger than earth isโฆ not much. Lots more variables involved, thoughโฆ
Ok, yes, not exactly directly related to space exploration, but still kind of relevant. 
Hey, if a sunken WWII battleship can fly into space, so can a sub.
Havenโt seen it, but obviously if an aircraft carrier can be made spaceworthy while already in spaceโฆ
What if the sub was yellow?
โThe new signal was still not in the format used by Voyager 1 when the FDS is working properly, so the team wasnโt initially sure what to make of it,โ NASA said in an update Wednesday. โBut an engineer with the agencyโs Deep Space Network, which operates the radio antennas that communicate with both Voyagers and other spacecraft traveling to the Moon and beyond, was able to decode the new signal and found that it contains a readout of the entire FDS memory.โ
Now, engineers are meticulously comparing each bit of code from the FDS memory readout to the memory readout Voyager 1 sent back to Earth before the issue arose in November. This, they hope, will allow them to find the root of the problem. But it will probably take weeks or months for the Voyager team to take the next step. They donโt want to cause more harm.
Good job, unnamed DSN engineerโฆ
But they left out Lunar surface rendezvous!
Itโs only somewhat less practical than option 4.
Boeing? Even if I were an astronaut I wouldnโt get 100 miles from that thing.
The second concern involved hundreds of feet of protective tape used to cover the wiring harnesses inside the Starliner vehicle, which was discovered to be flammable. [โฆ] โWeโve removed nearly a mile of tape from the vehicle, and mitigated about 85 to 90 percent of the areas that the tape is installed on the vehicle.โ
Ok, so they removed a mile of flammable tape from it, whatโs holding it together now? Just the bubble gum?
Theyโd better check the bubble gum around the external panel.
The Voyagersโ memory has lasted longer than my computer memory ever hasโฆ
the chip could have been hit by an energetic particle from space
Whenever one of our cats suddenly does something truly inexplicable, we blame it on one of those.
Whatโs a computer?
