It's Friday, and the perfect moment to unwind after a week of hard work. If you're still working on a Python loop, give yourself a break. As the weekend approaches, let your imagination run free, sky is the limit, envisioning the ultimate relaxation.
Imagine these or imagine that: from last Friday until this Friday, we have traveled approximately 11,230,000 miles. It's time to take a break. Can you believe we traveled that far? To put it in perspective, the length of Earth's orbit around the Sun is around 584 million miles. So, technically, the distance we covered in a week is just a drop in the bucket, considering that Mother Earth is giving us a ride every day.
Imagine upgrading a software 150 million miles away
Did you just upgrade your phone's software? It's easy, right? But imagine upgrading software remotely from 150 million miles away. Really? NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover just received a major software upgrade recently, which is around 150 million miles away. (The actual distance between Earth and Mars varies depending on their positions in their respective orbits around the sun. NASA provides an API that allows you to calculate the daily distance between the two planets.)
Let your imagination fly further
Imagine if there were man-made objects even farther away from us, and consider just how distant they might be .The Voyager probes are such objects: Voyager 1 is 14 billion miles away, the farthest man-made object from Earth, while Voyager 2 is 12 billion miles away from us. When these probes were launched, many of you had not yet been born. They were launched on Saturday, 20 August 1977 at 14:29:00 UTC and Monday, 5 September 1977 at 12:56:00 UTC, respectively.
Voyagers also brought the golden record with them. The records were created as a time capsule with the intention of communicating the story of Earth and humanity to any extraterrestrial life forms or future humans who might encounter the spacecraft. The records contain a diverse array of content, such as sounds of Earth, music, greetings in 55 languages, images, and scientific information.
The gold disc carried by each Voyager
Can you imagine even further ?
Imagine if extraterrestrial life found the Golden Record carried by Voyager and were able to decipher the instructions etched onto its cover. Theoretically, they could be playing "Johnny B. Goode" out there in interstellar space!
What could happen if this really happened? That is beyond my imagination.
