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What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf? (feddit.uk)

submitted 20 hours ago by manicdave@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, Britain's national mapping organisation's brand is associated in our national consciousness with going to a small shop in a quaint village to get a map showing how to walk up a mountain. It's called Ordnance Survey. If that sounds like Artillery Research to you, that's because the project started because the king wanted to know how to accurately bomb Scotland.

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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 27 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Last I heard we're still in contact with Voyager 1

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 37 minutes ago

Voyager 1 is the antithesis of planned obsolescence¹, with it long outlasting its mission

¹the real kind, no the meme kind liberals often say that things are the result of

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

So amazing, the amount of incredible science we've been able to do with the Voyager program.