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  • Perhaps we can find solace in the fact that Voyager will stand as a monument to our determination for scientific progress, space exploration and technical ingenuity.

    The probably of Voyager crashing into anything is so incredibly miniscule that it will very likely outlast our civilization and even us as a species. Any deterioration of the physical craft in a vacuum will be so slow it will last for geological timescales.





  • Shard@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldYeah, so...
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    20 days ago

    The founding fathers were correct. A pure democracy is also known as mob rule. Anytime you can get 51% to agree with you, you can do whatever you like.

    If 51% vote to take the homes of black people, that’s decided and done.

    Which is why modern democracies are all some form of representative democracy. Which in theory is supposed to act as a sort of check and balance on the system.