Not many gadgets built in 1977 are still running...

[AJMD429]

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...especially electronic ones...!

Guns seem to last a hundred years or more, and tractors and older model vehicles are sometimes long-lasting, but most 'modern' gizmos don't work well for more than a few years.

But the Voyager-1 is still working.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... r-AA1tkOkQ

Out in the harsh environment of space, outside our solar system, billions of miles away, no less...!

Amazing that a species with members stupid enough to vote for Harris also has members smart enough to build such a machine and operate it almost fifty years later from over a billion miles away.

[Grizz]

Well, I was built a long time before Voyager, but I can't run much any more, but I'm still ticking - - - LOL

[AJMD429]

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It is humbling to walk our property and see trees I planted that have certainly out-grown me, weighing thousands of pounds, standing dozens or hundreds of feet tall, and quite likely to outlast me by a hundred years...! We have a few trees that were likely alive when George Washington was around.

But when it comes to machines.... I see neighbors with the old Ford tractors around a hundred years old, and own a gun that is about 130 years old, a typewriter that is 100 years old, and some electric power tools that are 50 years old that still work, but the oldest vehicle I have that still runs is 50 years old, and when it comes to computers or other electronics, anything much over 5 years old has started to become flaky or not run at all.

Then again - there is a neat documentary from the 'Smarter Every Day' guy on the Saturn V rocket that shows how the 'primitive' computer technology then was still capable of amazing stuff.

[Gobblerforge]

Years ago at the Smithsonian Museum they had a maybe 15 foot tall clear plastic Saturn 5 rocket filled with resisters and stuff that made the rocket work. In the middle was a little window with a single computer chip that they said replaced all of it. Incredible. On a slightly different direction, I wonder what folks have done in their life that will outlast them for the ages. I built a log home that will maybe last a hundred or two years. I think the most enduring thing I ever made is a cave and tunnel through the bedrock that goes from the garage to the house. About 70 feet. That should last a long time.

[Bill in Oregon]

Be nice to keep the political garbage out of these threads. A pox on both houses.